More from Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
- Politics, chapter 2 (Bekker I.1253a2). Translated by Josiah Tucker, A Treatise Concerning Civil Government (1781), p. 381
More about experience
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Texts and Pretexts (1932), p. 5
