If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
- Abraham Lincoln
Suffering brings experience.
- Aeschylus
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
- Albert Camus
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others You wont have time to make them all yourself
- Alfred Sheinwold
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience
- Alice James
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
- Bette Davis
Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
- Dante Alighieri
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
- Douglas Adams
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
- Dr Thomas Doole
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
- Edward R Murrow
A burnt child dreads the fire.
- English Proverb
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- F P Jones
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
- George Bernard Shaw
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
In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
- George Crabbe
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
- Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
- Helen Keller
You can't step twice into the same river.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
- Isadora Duncan
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- J A Froude
We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
- James Anthony Froude
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
- James Anthony Froude
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
- James Anthony Froude
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- James Boswell
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
- James Russell Lowell
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
- Jim Horning
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W Gardner
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.
- Joseph Farrell
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
- Joseph Roux
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
- Josh Billings
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
- Josh Billings
Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
- Judith Stern
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust
- Karl Kraus
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
