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When I was young, I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me – John Wesley
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, but that circumstances, time, and experience would teach him something new, and apprise him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether impracticable – Terrence
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When I was young, I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me – John Wesley
No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, but that circumstances, time, and experience would teach him something new, and apprise him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas which in theory appeared the most advantageous were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether impracticable – Terrence
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However learned or eloquent, man knows nothing truly that he has not learned from experience – Wieland
Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct – Franklin
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience – Terrence
Adversity is the first path to truth – He who hath proved war, storm, or woman’s rage, whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, hath won the experience is deemed so weighty – Byron
It is foolish to try to live on past experience – It is a very dangerous, if not a fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago – Spurgeon
It may serve us as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions, that he who loses anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer by the loss – L’Estrange
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate – Shakespeare
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience – An unhappy master is he who is made wise only by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant who is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt – By experience we find out a short way by long wondering – Roger Ascham
Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men – Men of wit and honesty are otherwise instructed – Erasmus
We are often prophets to others, only because we are our own historians – Mad. Swetchine
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes – Froude
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects success in the future by the same means which secured it in the past – Wendell Phillips
Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct – Franklin
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience – Terrence
Adversity is the first path to truth – He who hath proved war, storm, or woman’s rage, whether his winters be eighteen or eighty, hath won the experience is deemed so weighty – Byron
It is foolish to try to live on past experience – It is a very dangerous, if not a fatal habit to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago – Spurgeon
It may serve us as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions, that he who loses anything and gets wisdom by it, is a gainer by the loss – L’Estrange
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate – Shakespeare
He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience – An unhappy master is he who is made wise only by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant who is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt – By experience we find out a short way by long wondering – Roger Ascham
Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men – Men of wit and honesty are otherwise instructed – Erasmus
We are often prophets to others, only because we are our own historians – Mad. Swetchine
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes – Froude
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects success in the future by the same means which secured it in the past – Wendell Phillips
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