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Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn
The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
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.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]