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

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

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of read more

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; read more

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.