What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
The years teach much which the days never know.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.