Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? – Voltaire
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I dont deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but dont we just as often draw the wrong ones? – Georg C. Lichtenberg
An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all ones experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision. – Sholem Asch
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. – Samuel Smiles
Ive done some TV and Ive done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. Im used to learning material and words. – Sutton Foster
And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand. – George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of mans general destiny. – Lascelles Abercrombie
