I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.

—Patrick Henry

About Patrick Henry

Portrait of Patrick Henry

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 [O.S. May 18, 1736] – June 6, 1799) was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial governor of Virginia, from...

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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

—James A. Froude

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

—Franklin P. Jones

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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