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Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?
Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience read more
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
You can't step twice into the same river.
You can't step twice into the same river.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.
