Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.