#experience

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

In the end, one experiences only oneself.

The doer alone learneth.

The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. I know. I don't need to believe.

My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.

Any idea upon which we can ride, any idea that will carry us prosperously from any one part of our experience to any other, is true for just so much.

Ideas become true just in so far as they help us to get into satisfactory relation with other parts of our experience.

To know the truth requires a willing surrender of preconceived prejudices before the court of practical experience.

Live out the active hypothesis; life will reveal whether your ground was firm.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

He who seeks truth in outward books alone is like one who reads the recipe and thinks his hunger is satisfied.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Experience life in all possible ways — good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. The more experience you have, the more mature you become.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love!

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.