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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
* Samuel Butler
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
* English Proverb
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Scalded cats fear even cold water.
* Thomas Fuller
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
* Henry James
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Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves--and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.
* Helen Keller
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
* G. C. Lichtenberg
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
* James Russell Lowell
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When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way--before one began.
* Friedrich Nietzsche
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
* George Bernard Shaw
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
* Oscar Wilde
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