The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn

The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn

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.

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.]

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

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 live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence read more

To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love

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.