experience on Learning

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.

Experience is overrated. Some people say they have twenty years’ experience, when, in reality, they only have one year’s experience, repeated twenty times.

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

Sometimes in life it is best to experience something rather than try to explain it. In this funny little story about two Jewish men, one blind from birth and another with full eyesight, the point is m...