Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or read more

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary
as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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

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

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.

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

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

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than read more

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.