“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“Today is yesterday’s pupil.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occured in experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Life is our dictionary.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary sourceWisdom Learning Cause and Effect Science Judgement