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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
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.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; read more
Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but read more
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is
We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than read more
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.