Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Strange how few After all's said and done, the things that are Of moment.
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
