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

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

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
fool are in the ends of the read more

Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a
fool are in the ends of the earth.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the read more

Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

Take the word of experience, I speak the truth: inaction is safest in danger.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

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, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou read more

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.