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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what read more
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
While we read history we make history.
While we read history we make history.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world read more
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.
Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.