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.

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

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

What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs

What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

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.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

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

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

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

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