All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

With growing experience, all skillful commanders sought to profit by the power of the defensive, even when on the offensive.

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