"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."

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"When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?" I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before.""Not Russian vodka."Apparently not."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Experience, Strength, Culture, Surprise

"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."

Bishop Robert South, English Theologian

Experience, Wonder

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Experience, Optimism, Cynicism, Old

"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

Margaret J. Wheatley, American Writer

Experience, War, Ideas, Blame

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."

Jesse Eisenberg, American Actor

Experience, Acting, Emotions, Environment

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."

Thomas Malthus, English Economist

Experience, Truth, Knowledge, Will

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Experience, Poor, Prophecy

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

Experience, Song, Writer, Writing

"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."

Charley Pride, American Athlete

Experience,

"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing."

Richard Wright, American Novelist

Experience, Dream, Books, Now

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"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society."

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"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

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"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

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"Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience."

"Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism."

"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

"The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded."

"I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth."

"Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience."

"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

"Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing."

"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing."

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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."

"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."

"The endurance of the inequalities of life by the poor is the marvel of human society."

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."

"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."