#dom

You can have all the schooling you want, it doesn't make you a bit smarter or wiser. It is experience through the act of doing that is the greatest teacher. ↗

— R. G. Risch

#school #teacher #wisdom #experience

If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work. ↗

— Alice Bag

#self-defense #violence #experience

I bought a packet of Trojan® Ultra Pleasure Extra Sensitive condoms: ‘No. 1 in AMERICA’. They smell nothing like a positive first sexual experience. ↗

— Joe Dunthorne

#humour #sex #virginity #experience

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #artists-life #creative #creativity #experiences

Wisdom is the daughter of experience ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#knowledge #wisdom #experience

If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience. ↗

— John Gray

#experience #life-lessons #wisdom #experience

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#influence #influences #observations #proverb #proverbial-wisdom

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#wisdom #experience

Freedom is anxiety's petri dish. If routine blunts anxiety, freedom incubates it. Freedom says, "Even if you don't want to make choices, you have to, and you can never be sure you have chosen correctly." Freedom says, "Even not to choose is to choose." Freedom says, "So long as you are aware of your freedom, you are going to experience the discomfort that freedom brings." Freedom says, "You're on your own. Deal with it. ↗

— Daniel Smith

#choices #freedom #experience