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.

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

The years teach much which the days never knew.

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

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

Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

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

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

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.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

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

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.