“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” — James Russell Lowell Quote

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Light is the symbol of truth.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Every moment is an experience.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around that you end up thinking about them and talking about them for literally years after your experience with them is over. I've had that happen to me, and I've seen it happen to other people. I find it fascinating.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own story. Moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.