Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell

About James Boswell

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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (; 29 October 1740 (N.S.) – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, Life of Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest...

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

—James Boswell

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

—James A. Froude

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

—Franklin P. Jones

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

—Barry LePatner

Experience teaches only the teachable.

—Aldous Huxley

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