A Quote by Mark Twain

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can

Elaine May

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

David Hume

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The worst possible thing for any of us - no matter what our temptations, no matter what our mortal inclinations may be - is to become fixated with them, to dwell on them. When we do that, not only do we deny the other things that comprise us, but experience teaches that there will be an increased likelihood that eventually we will simply succumb to the inclination.

Lance B. Wickman

Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Hyman Rickover

I love the values football can teach. It gives young people a sense of how to defer present gratification for future success, it teaches self-discipline, it teaches teamwork, it gives them a bonding experience that can be hard to find somewhere else, it teaches the ability to process large amounts of information and apply it in real time.

Leigh Steinberg

It is always the same with me; only when I experience something do I compose, and only when composing do I experience! After all, a musician's nature can hardly be expressed in words.

Gustav Mahler

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

Elaine May

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

Michael Lewis

What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken

Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.

John C. Maxwell

It’s scary to realize that the only thing holding our friends to us isn’t our performance, or our lovability, or their guilt, or their obligation. The only thing that will keep them calling, spending time with us, and putting up with us is love. And that’s the one thing we can’t control.

Henry Cloud

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

Peter Ustinov

Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

PattiSue Plumer

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Judy Collins

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