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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.
The only source of knowledge is experience
The only source of knowledge is experience
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
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.
