Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

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.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

Experience by itself is not science.

Experience by itself is not science.