“Even from whatever miserable experience you might have, there is something to be learned.”

“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”

“Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”

“I learned a long time ago that you have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it.”

“Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.”

“Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.”