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.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through read more

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

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

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

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

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.