It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
- Sara Teasdale

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
- Pete Seeger

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
- Jim Rohn

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
- Josh Billings

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
- Mohandas Gandhi

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Andre Gide

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake.
- Luis Miguel

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
- Martha Washington

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
- Sanford I. Weill

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
- Charles Louis de Secondat

To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life’s outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
- George Crabbe – The Borough

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.
- John Updike

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.
- Marilyn Monroe

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Mark Twain

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
- Josh Billings

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Ralph Marston

One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
- William Edward Hartpole Lecky

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
- Kahlil Gibran

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
- Clarence Day