Thought for Today

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

~~~~~ George Mason

Thought for Today

"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

~~~~~ Carl Jung

Thought for Today

"The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time."

~~~~~ Franklin Pierce Adams

Thought for Today

"But I have learned a thing or two;
I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth,
The gold key comes too late."

~~~~~ Will Carleton

Thought for Today

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

~~~~~ Isaac D'Israeli

Thought for Today

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

~~~~~ George Mason

Thought for Today

"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

~~~~~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thought for Today

"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation."

~~~~~ Isaac D'Israeli

Thought for Today

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

~~~~ George Mason

Thought for Today

"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."

~~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Thought for Today

"Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment."

~~~~~ Walter Wriston

Thought for Today

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity."

~~~~~ Calvin Coolidge

Thought for Today

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

~~~~~ John Ruskin

Thought for Today

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

~~~~~ Ludwig van Beethoven

Thought for Today

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."

~~~~~ William Feather

Thought for Today

"A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings."

~~~~~ George Mason

Thought for Today

"A liberal mistrusts lessons bought with experience. For him, theory is all. He's the only man who would sit down on a red-hot stove twice. That makes well-meaning Democrats marks for shysters selling health-care 'reform,' global warming and appeasement of radical Islamists."

~~~~~ Wesley Pruden

Thought for Today

"When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident...of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."

~~~~~ E. J. Smith, 1907
            (Captain, RMS Titanic)

Thought for Today

"What experience and history teach is this – that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."

~~~~~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel