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"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
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.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
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.