"You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson."

-- Kim Stanley Robinson

#Mistake Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“Our neighbors in Virginia are just as responsible for these killings as the criminals are because they won't pass strong gun [control] legislation.”
“Keeping the head still is golf's one universal, unarguable fundamental.”
“Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.”

Source : Hermann Broch (2011). “The Sleepwalkers”, p.468, Vintage
“While youâ€™re alive thereâ€™s no time for minor amazements.”
“The more often a person tell a lie-the more time u hear lie,u begin to believe it-if it's told often enough,u start begin to believe it”
“Iâ€™m aware of my weaknesses and THE BEAST WITHIN.”
“Goddesses never die. They slip in and out of the world's cities, in and out of our dreams, century after century, answering to different names, dressed differently, perhaps even disguised, perhaps idle and unemployed, their official altars abandoned, their temples feared or simply forgotten.”

Source : Phyllis Chesler (1973). “Women & madness”
“Christ is the foundation of all our hopes for time and for eternity. Oh, build on this divine foundation! All other foundations are sinking sand.”

Source : Robert Stuart MacArthur (1890). “The Calvary Pulpit: Christ and Him Crucified”

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