experience Quotes

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.

In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they... ...

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

We can't learn without pain.

People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known... ...