Quote

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.

William Ralph Inge

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Ralph Inge
Experience
Good
Fees
Teacher
High

More quotes by William Ralph Inge

Image
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.
William Ralph Inge
Image
In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Philosophy means thinking things out for oneself. Ultimately, there can be only one true philosophy, since reason is one and we all live in the same world.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Ralph Inge
Image
To marry is to get a binocular view of life.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Religion is caught, not taught.
William Ralph Inge
Image
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
William Ralph Inge
Image
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.
William Ralph Inge
Image
The right use of leisure is no doubt a harder problem than the right use of our working hours. The soul is dyed the color of its leisure thoughts.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Hatred toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart as love to God.
William Ralph Inge
Image
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
William Ralph Inge
Image
Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
William Ralph Inge