Experience

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust

experience is the only prophecy of wise men

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation

The only source of knowledge is experience

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste