Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience read more

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]

Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. read more

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A burnt child dreads the fire.