There's no substitute for experience

There's no substitute for experience

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.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

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.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

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.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

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

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

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.