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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence read more
To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
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.]
