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

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

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.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men read more

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

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.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]

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.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!