"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Learning, Growth, Life

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Adventure, Memory, Choice, Risk

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Experience, Pain, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Read, Book, Write, Life

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Work, Life, Memory

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Sensation, Contrast, Enjoyment

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

Experience, Truth, Reality, Fear, Today

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Experience, Question, Memory, Pain

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Experience, Curiosity, Adventure, Risk, Reality

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Experience, Age, Insight, Wisdom

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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

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"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

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"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

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"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

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"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

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"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."

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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

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"He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft."

"It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested."

"Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character."

"The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere."

"What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us."

"There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends."

"Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how."

"Folks never understand the folks they hate."

"No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself."

"Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts."