Education/Experience/Etc.
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A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know. - Laurence J. Peter
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know.
It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. - Anatole France
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Vernon Law
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones
Experience is the best teacher and the worst experiences teach the best lessons.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
Experience only teaches the teachable. - Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. - James A. Froude
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
Forget your mistakes but remember the lessons they taught you.
Good judgment comes from experience which comes from poor judgment.
History is a vast early warning system. - Norman Cousins
I am always willing to learn. I do not, however, always enjoy being taught. - Winston Churchill
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something
and finding something else on the way. - Franklin P. Adams
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant,
and kindness from the unkind. - Kahil Gibran
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. - Alec Bourne
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle
I've learned that that I still have a lot to learn.
- Age 92; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Our joys are our wings; our sorrows are our spurs.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
The bad thing about experience is that it teaches you the things you didn't want to know.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts
as to discover new ways of thinking about them. - Sir William Bragg
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. - Josh Billings
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Henry Huxley
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. - Doug Larson
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