The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're read more

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

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

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

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience by itself is not science.

Experience by itself is not science.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.