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

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness

Every artist was first an amateur

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.

You never fail until you stop trying