In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a read more

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.