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.

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 that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience read more

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you
get when you don't.

Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you
get when you don't.