"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." ― Josh Billings Topic(s): Experience Tags: nothing, there More From Josh Billings "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust." "Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed." "Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it." More In Experience "For me, I’d rather have an intense experience than not."― Joaquin Phoenix "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."― Randolph Bourne "Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don’t start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like."― John Polkinghorne