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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-Henry Ford
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
-George Bernard Shaw
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
