It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
