"The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences."

-- May Sarton

#People Quotes #Experience Quotes #Helping Quotes

“But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.”
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
“By their subjugation of the press, the political powers in America have conferred on themselves the greatest of political blessings -- Gyges' ring of invisibility. And they have left the American people more deeply baffled by their own country's politics than any people on earth. Our public realm lies steeped in twilight, and we call that twilight news.'”

Source : Walter Karp (1992). “Buried alive: essays on our endangered republic”, Franklin Square Pr
“Real wealth is ideas plus energy.”
“We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together,”
“Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.”

Source : Patricia Wentworth (1958). “The Alington inheritance”
“It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.”
“Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”

You may also like:

Carolyn Heilbrun
Author
Doris Grumbach
Novelist
Elizabeth Bowen
Novelist
George Sarton
Historian of Science
Janet Frame
Author
Louise Bogan
Poet
May Swenson
Poet
Philip Larkin
Poet
Virginia Woolf
Writer