#peri

Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves. ↗

— James Boswell

#equality #fear #gender #intelligence #men

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. ↗

— John Dewey

#learning-from-mistakes #life #experience

There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#romance #sorry #wisdom #experience

We learn from failure, not from success! ↗

— Bram Stoker

#experience #learning #mistakes #records #wisdom

I want to price my next book and adjust it for the coming hyperinflation. So instead of the normal one dollar price, I’ll charge $1,000,000.00. If I sell one copy now I’ll be a happy man, and if I sell a million copies after hyperinflation hits in a few years then I’ll be equally as happy.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hyperinflation #inflation #price #equality

True love is born of experience, not fairy dust. ↗

— Janette Oke

#faith #love #love-comes-softly #romance #experience

If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #experience

I am so grateful for the many times God has shown me the mercy of not giving me what I want. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#grateful #gratitude #happiness #life #mercy

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life #philosophy #relevance #truth #experience

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading. ↗

— William Styron

#reading #experience