Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves-and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

The finest edge is made with the blunt whetstone.

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has never experienced.

If your trains on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud.