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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noble
  Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confuciu...
• All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. -- Sir Philip Sydney
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Actio
  and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action....
• Death is the one experience which we cannot put in perspective afterwards.
• This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
  -- Arthur Clarke...
• There are three parts in truth: first, the inquiry, which is the wooing of i
  econdly, the knowledge of it, which is the presence of i...
• The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black is lost in the gray of it.
  It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages....
• Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty
  but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood....