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.

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.

Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the read more

Don't let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that's long enough!

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.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

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.

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 something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.