Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. – Mark van Doren
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I dont want those things in my life. – Chrissie Hynde
If were picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a new Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless. – Antonin Scalia
Sure, I suffered a lot. But its not like the end of the world and its not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and Im able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life. – Ben Affleck
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. – Niels Bohr