An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

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

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

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old read more

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.