
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
As quoted in The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts : A Felicitous Look at Felines (1997) by Ed Lucaire
on the experiments used in his lectures on Galvanism. [William Sturgeon, A Course of Twelve Elementary Lectures on Galvanism, London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1843, 33-34, http://www.archive.org/details/courseoftwelveel00sturrich]
“Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.”
As quoted in The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts : A Felicitous Look at Felines (1997) by Ed Lucaire
Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling (1992), p. 14
“Experience teaches only the teachable…”
Tragedy and the Whole Truth
Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
Feb. 15, 1936
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.”
A Murderess’s Tale http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2005).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)
“Failure isn’t the best teacher. Neither is experience. Only evaluated experience teaches us.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You, (2004) by Yogananda
“My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.”
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 118