"There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home."
― John Stuart Mill
Topic(s):
Experience
More From John Stuart Mill
- "The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
- "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain."
- "Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
More In Experience
- "I had some experience in dealing with people who have mental illness and depression, but I didn’t see the signs in myself. I couldn’t ask for help because I didn’t know I needed help."― Clara Hughes
- "Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."― George Washington
- "Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."― Walter Benjamin