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Abigail Van Buren
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.
Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Alfred Sheinwold
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Ann Morrow Lindbergh Gift from the Sea
I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
Anne Bradstreet Meditations Divine and Moral
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Auguste Rodin
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Author Unknown
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
Author Unknown
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.
Author Unknown
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Author Unknown
There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
Barry LePatner To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.
Bergen Evens
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning?and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bernard Malamud, The Natural
We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
Blanche H. Dow Roads and Vistas Meditations for Women
Unless the knowledge gained from experience is reconditioned in each new situation, it is a rigid and a dangerous guide.
Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
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.
Chinese Proverb
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Colette
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
Dan Stanford
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
 
 
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