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"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
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Experience"Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained."
Experience refers to conscious events in general, more specifically to perceptions, or to the practical knowledge and familiarity that is produced by these processes. Understood as a conscious event in the widest sense, experience involves a subject to which various items are presented. In this sense, seeing a yellow bird on a branch presents the subject with the objects "bird" and "branch", the r
"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
"The dog [in Pavlovs experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock."
"Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair."
"Stultorum eventus magister est."
"Experience seems to be like the shining of a bright lantern. It suddenly makes clear in the mind what was already there perhaps, but dim."
"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart."