Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. -
It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible. -
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. -
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order. -
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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- I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
- Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
- To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
- Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.
- To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.