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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
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.
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.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it read more
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's
stairs.
[It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
