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.

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.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know read more

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The highest form of wisdom is kindness

The highest form of wisdom is kindness

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a
man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a read more

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a
man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and
sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

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.