Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Quotations
Ambrose Bierce
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Future : That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
