Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~ Edith Wharton
Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much.
~ Delacroix
Suffering brings experience.
~ Aeschylus
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
~ Pete Seeger
If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.
~C.S. Lewis
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
~George Bernard Shaw
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I kept my positive attitude and turned a negative experience into an opportunity.
~Catherine Pulsifer
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
~ Minna Antrim
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
~George Bernard Shaw
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
~Oscar Wilde
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.
~Thomas Carlyle
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
~James A. Froude
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
~Elbert Hubbard
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time
~Henrik Ibsen
Experience teaches only the teachable.
~Aldous Huxley
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~ James Russell Lowell
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
~Aldous Huxley
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
~ David T. Wolf
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
~ Leonardo da Vinci
We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
~ William Faulkner
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
~ Henry Reed
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
~Josh Billings
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
~Abigail Van Buren
Experience is only half of experience
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
~Ansel Adams
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~ Rodin
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
~ Judy Collins