I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know read more

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

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.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

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

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

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.

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.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.