For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.
My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.
Example is the best precept.
Adventure is worthwhile.
We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
It was the experience of mystery even if mixed with fear that engendered religion.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
