"Experience, the only logic sure to convince..." - Quote by Mark Twain
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
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“That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.”
“Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar”
“the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated.”
More on Experience
“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.”
“We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.”
“Creatures extremely low in the intellectual scale may have conception. All that is required is that they should recognize the same experience again. A polyp would be a conceptual thinker if a feeling of 'Hello! thingumbob again!' ever flitted through its mind.”