Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

Lynsay Sands
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In everyday life, we seek the wisdom of experience. So much is learned from experience that it can be said that what we learn from experience is more valuable than the lessons learned from books. Take a child who has been raised in a close knit family and then take a child raised in a chaotic environment. Something as simple as how to tie a shoe could be an area where these two children can have vastly different experiences and yet one could have much more wisdom. The only way to obtain this kind of wisdom is to have lived through those experiences and come out stronger for it.

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