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[Quote No.15893] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Alexander received more bravery of mind by the pattern [example] of Achilles, than by hearing the definition of fortitude.
" - Sir Philip Sidney
(1554 - 1586) English soldier and poet
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[Quote No.15896] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Much more gracious and profitable is doctrine by example, than by rule." - Edmund Spenser
(1552 - 1599) English poet
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[Quote No.15898] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"My advice is to consult the lives of other men, as one would a looking glass, and from thence fetch examples for imitation." - Terence
(190 B.C. - 150 B.C.) Roman comic poet
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[Quote No.15938] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There can be no excess to love, to knowledge, to beauty..." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.15987] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." - Minna Antrin
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[Quote No.15988] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Ask the experienced rather than the learned." - Arabic Proverb
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[Quote No.15989] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He hazards much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master is he who is made wise only by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, who is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by long wandering. [The wise learn from others experience, lest they be faced with the price of personal experience.]" - Roger Ascham
(1515 - 1568) English author
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[Quote No.15990] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. [There is a big difference between theory and practice.]" - Hosea Ballou
(1771 - 1852) American clergy
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[Quote No.15993] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Adversity is the first path to truth." - Lord Byron
(1788 - 1824), George Gordon Noel Byron - English Poet
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[Quote No.15994] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience, that ...touchstone whose...proof reduces all things from their false hue." - Lord Byron
(1788 - 1824), George Gordon Noel Byron - English Poet
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[Quote No.15995] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A little experience upsets a lot of theory." - Samuel Parkes Cadman
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[Quote No.15996] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience takes dreadfully high wages, but he teaches like no other." - Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881) English essayist, historian, biographer and philosopher
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[Quote No.15998] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The knowledge of the world is only acquired in the world..." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) English courtier, orator and wit
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[Quote No.15999] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. [But to the wise it becomes a torch ever illuminating the future.]" - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834) English poet and critic
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[Quote No.16000] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others." - Joseph Collins
(1866-1950?) American neurologist
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[Quote No.16001] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The years teach much which the days never know. [The greater the experience, the greater the wisdom.]" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803 - 1882) American essayist, poet and philosopher
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[Quote No.16002] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience is the shroud of illusions." - J. de Finod
19th century American translator and editor
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[Quote No.16003] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you take all the experience and judgment of men [and women] over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. [...Such is the importance of the experience gathered as we age.]" - Henry Ford
(1863 - 1947) American auto manufacturer
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[Quote No.16004] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other and scarce in that..." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790) American statesman, inventor and author
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[Quote No.16005] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes." - James A. Froude
(1818 - 1894) English historian
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[Quote No.16006] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." - Aldous Huxley
(1894 - 1963) novelist and critic
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[Quote No.16007] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you until your life is illustrated by it." - John Keats
(1795 - 1821) English poet
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[Quote No.16008] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience is the worst [harshest] teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson." - Vernon Law
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[Quote No.16009] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Only by experiencing the experience will you know what it means to have the experience; such as reading all the books in the world about swimming will not make you a swimmer until you get in the water and experience what it means to swim." - Sidney Madwed
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[Quote No.16011] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
" - John Stuart Mill
(1806 - 1873) English economist
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[Quote No.16013] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"No amount of speculation takes the place of experience." - Charles Sanders Peirce
(1839 - 1914) U.S. logician, mathematician, and philosopher
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[Quote No.16014] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"That man is wise to some purpose that gains his wisdom at the expense and from the experience of another." - Plautus
(254 B.C. - 184 B.C.) Roman comic poet
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[Quote No.16016] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Experience is a jewel, and it had needed be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16017] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He cannot be a perfect man, not being tried and tutored in the world. Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time. [and age]" - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616) English poet and dramatist
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[Quote No.16018] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"All is but lip-wisdom, which wants experience." - Sir Philip Sidney
(1554 - 1586) English soldier and poet
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[Quote No.16019] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The rules which experience suggests are better than those, which theorists elaborate in their libraries. [Therefore the tremendous value of quoting the wise words of the talented and experienced.]" - Richard Salter Storrs
(1821 - 1900) American clergy
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[Quote No.16020] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Nothing can take the place of practical experience out in the world." - A. B. Zu Tavern
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[Quote No.16021] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, but that circumstances, time, and experience, would teach him something new, and apprise him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether impracticable." - Terence
(190 B.C. - 150 B.C.) Roman comic poet
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[Quote No.16022] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience." - Terence
(190 B.C. - 150 B.C.) Roman comic poet
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[Quote No.16023] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. [...beyond even what was sought.]" - Saint Teresa of Avila
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[Quote No.16024] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time." - Unknown
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[Quote No.16025] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is no free tuition in the school of experience. " - Unknown
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[Quote No.16026] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The University of Life is expensive but worth it if the lessons are invested in the future." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.16044] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The curious questioning eye, that plucks the heart of every mystery. [The power of experience and observation over theory alone.]" - Grenville Mellen
(1799 - 1841) American poet
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[Quote No.16054] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"...sight must be reinforced by insight before...can be discerned ...ideas as well as objects; realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections. [...so experiment, observation and theory are intertwined.]" - Edwin Percy Whipple
(1819 - 86) American essayist
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[Quote No.16061] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Facts are to the mind, what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.
" - Edmund Burke
(1729 - 97) English orator and statesman
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[Quote No.16063] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments. [Observation and experience is often more powerful than theory.]" - Nathaniel Emmons
(1745 - 1840) American theologian
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[Quote No.16129] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Your faith is what you believe, not what you know." - John Lancaster Spalding
(1840 - 1916) American catholic prelate
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[Quote No.16143] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874–1965) British Prime Minister, winner of Nobel Prize for Literature
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[Quote No.16243] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice." - Edgar Watson Howe
(1853-1937), American author and editor
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[Quote No.16280] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world." - Eric Hoffer
(1902-1983), American philosopher and author
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[Quote No.16347] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is a foolish corner even in the brain of the sage." - Aristotle
(384 B.C. - 322 B.C.) Greek philosopher
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[Quote No.16409] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free [to choose well], and all are slaves beside." - William Cowper
(1731 - 1800) English poet
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[Quote No.16576] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple." - C. W. Ceram
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[Quote No.16577] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous and conflicting information." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965) British statesman and author
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