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.
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
The reward of suffering is experience.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
I didn’t think; I experimented.
Every moment is an experience.
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Explorers have to be ready to die lost.
