Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Young men, hear an old man to whom old men hearkened when he was young.

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.