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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.
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.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
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.
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.
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.