There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.

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

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

You can't step twice into the same river.

You can't step twice into the same river.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.