"Experience – the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."
― Ambrose Bierce
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Experience
― Ambrose Bierce
More From Ambrose Bierce
- "Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while."
- "Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white."
- "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
More In Experience
- "Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats."― Diane Arbus
- "In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs."― Christopher Lasch
- "Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."― Franklin P. Jones