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

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

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

You can't step twice into the same river.

You can't step twice into the same river.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
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To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of read more

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.