"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning." ― James Russell Lowell Topic(s): Experience More From James Russell Lowell "To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires." "Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor." "On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women." More In Experience "Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it."― Brian Eno "Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."― Francis Bacon "Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."― A. R. Ammons