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“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
“...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hu...”
“Good morning," said the little prince.Good morning," said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you wou...”
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the wa...”
“Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities.”
“Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.”
“Experience is never at bargain price.”
“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”
“Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!”
“When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.”
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
“In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.”
“Luck, I believe, is where preparation meets opportunity.”
“If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.”
“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
“I stepped from Plank to PlankSo slow and cautiouslyThe Stars about my Head I felt,About my Feet the Sea.I knew not but the nextWould be my final inch This gave me that precarious GaitSome call Expe...”
“In the boundaryless forests, therere dancers of nude.Yet in the confines of pasture, theres promise of food.On which is your side?, but tarry and bide,ere you decide,in both do confide.”
“Life can only be experienced.”
