Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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.

You can't step twice into the same river.

You can't step twice into the same river.

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.

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.