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.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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.]

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of read more

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.

All life is an experiment.

All life is an experiment.

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

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