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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.