Rule #1,063

Silence is almost impossible to experience in the modern world.

Rule #729

Our own personal biases often cause us to judge something as terrible before we ever give it a try.

Rule #556

You learn a lot more about a person at their funeral than you ever knew about them when they were alive.

Rule #525

Meta-Rule #6:

While a lot of rules stem from personal experience, I need not necessarily have experienced something to have written a rule about it.

Rule #474

Scientist Guest Rule #4 (from Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist)

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Rule #226

Philosopher Guest Rule #2 (by Immanuel Kant):

Although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Rule #9

It's always a good idea to understand history. Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.