Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
The generals don't prepare for the last war out of perversity or stupidity, but rather because past experience is all they have to go by. Most of them simply don't know how to interpret that experience. They are correct in preparing for another war but wrong in relying upon what worked in the last one.
And if he be too forward to venture upon his own strength and skill, and perplexity and trouble of a misadventure now and then, that reaches not his innocence, his health, or reputation, may not be an ill way to teach him more caution.
I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don't take friends for granted.
It is exceedingly important for members of the Church to get experience following the prophets in little things, so that they can follow in large matters. By following the prophets in fair weather we become familiar with their cadence, so that we can follow them in stormy times too, for then both our reflexes and our experience will need to combine to help us; the stresses will be so very real.
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
As experiences accumulate in our lives, they add strength and support to each other.
People usually dismiss attempts at verbal persuasion but can’t so readily dismiss things they’ve experienced firsthand. These direct experiences are both more memorable and more meaningful.
Instead of waiting for some type of direct experience to present itself, design a process so that one of the very first, if not the first, activities you engage in are direct experiences.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Life is playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You're thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
The more we do, the more we can do.
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
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