Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments
My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.