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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
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"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."
"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
"I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past."
"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."
"You, the unhappy young! Try to take a leaf out of the old happy's book!"
"What is written is merely the dregs of experience."
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"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
"One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
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