Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they... →
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and... →
Roger Bacon
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends... →
Michael Baden
I guess I never really had a high school experience. I went for about a month, and on the first day one of my friends got punched in the eye. It was... →
Penn Badgley
As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.
Jane Badler
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally... →
Erykah Badu
Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of... →
Julian Baggini