One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than read more

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune

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.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]

To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But read more

To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

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.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of read more

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

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.