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    “We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.”

    Baron De Montesquieu, The Daily Laws (Page 51)

      “You can achieve wisdom in three ways. the first way is the way of meditation. This is the most noble way. The second way is the way of imitation. This is the easiest and least satisfying way. Thirdly, there is the way of experience. This is the most difficult way.”

      Confucius, A Calendar of Wisdom (Page 41)

        “We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us… The lives that you admire, the attitudes that seem noble to you are not the result of training at home, by a father, or by masters at school, they have sprung from beginnings of a very different order, by reaction from the influence of everything evil or commonplace that prevailed round about them. They represent a struggle and a victory.”

        Marcel Proust, via The Daily Laws (Page 5)

          “We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives. One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.”

          Merle Shain, via Sunbeams (Page 155)

            “When your sparring partner scratches or head-butts you, you don’t then make a show of it, or protest, or view him with suspicion or as plotting against you. And yet you keep an eye on him, not as an enemy or with suspicion, but with a healthy avoidance. You should act this way with all things in life. We should give a pass to many things with our fellow trainees. For, as I’ve said, it’s possible to avoid without suspicion or hate.”

            Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, via The Daily Stoic (Page 128)

              “Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learned to walk.”

              Cyril Connolly, via Sunbeams (Page 83)

                “The right kind of misadventures—the ones that yield information—can produce confidence.”

                Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit (Page 222) (Read Matt’s Blog On this Quote)

                  “Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. Even a brief illness or an accident can show you what is real and unreal in your life, what ultimately matters and what doesn’t.”

                  Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 178) | Read Matt’s Blog on this quote ➜

                    “They say all that is old is not gold. I say, even if all that is old is gold, forget about it. Choose the new—gold or no gold, it doesn’t matter. What matters is your choice: your choice to learn, your choice to experience, your choice to go into the dark. Slowly slowly your courage will start functioning. And sharpness of intelligence is not something separate from courage, it is almost one organic whole.”

                    Osho, Courage (Page 149)

                      “Committing many mistakes, one learns what is a mistake and how not to commit it. Knowing what is error, one comes closer and closer to what is truth. It is an individual exploration, you cannot depend on others’ conclusions.”

                      Osho, Courage (Page 16)

                        “That is one of the problems: people have been taught never to do anything wrong, and then they become so hesitant, so fearful, so frightened of doing wrong, that they become stuck. They cannot move, something wrong may happen. So they become like rocks, they lose all movement. Commit as many mistakes as possible, remembering only one thing: don’t commit the same mistake again. And you will be growing.”

                        Osho, Courage (Page 12)

                        John C. Maxwell Quote on Experience and How It Isn’t The Best Teacher

                          “What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don’t. Everybody has some kind of experience. It’s what you do with that experience that matters.”

                          John C. Maxwell, Leadership Gold

                          Beyond the Quote (305/365)

                          “Experience is the best teacher” works when you’re talking about touching a hot stove. I can describe to you the feeling of getting burned with conviction, give you examples, and use sound logic until I’m blue in the face—it still won’t compare to what you come to understand when you touch the hot stove. The same is true when we’re talking about swimming. I can teach you all of the best strokes, floating strategies, and swimming techniques in the field—it still won’t compare to what you learn by actually being in the water.

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                            “Go to what will teach you the most, not what will pay the most. It’s about choosing opportunities that you’ll learn the most from. That’s the rubric. That’s how you get better. People sometimes try to sweeten speaking offers by mentioning how glamorous the location is or how much fun it will be. I’d be more impressed if they told me I was going to have a conversation that was going to blow my mind.”

                            Ryan Holiday, Medium