To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

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.

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a read more

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. read more

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable read more

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.