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Quote |
Author |
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| Experience | "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." | Adams, Douglas |
| Experience | "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply." | Billings, Josh |
| Experience | "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience." | Bourne, Randolph |
| Experience | "Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on." | Butler, Samuel |
| Experience | "All that I know I learned after I was thirty." | Clemenceau, Georges |
| Experience | "Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience." | Day, Clarence |
| Experience | "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." | Duncan, Isadora |
| Experience | "As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are." | Farrell, Joseph |
| Experience | "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." | Franklin, Benjamin |
| Experience | "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." | Gide, Andre |
| Experience | "Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." | Huxley, Aldous |
| Experience | "If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches." | Kenmore, Carolyn |
| Experience | "Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward." | Kierkegaard, Soren |
| Experience | "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." | King, Stephen |
| Experience | "Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust." | Kraus, Karl |
| Experience | "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment." | Mae Brown, Rita |
| Experience | "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." | Rodin, Auguste |
| Experience | "Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired." | Roux, Joseph |
| Experience | "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." | Seeger, Pete |
| Experience | "Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself." | Sheinwold, Alfred |
| Experience | "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." | Twain, Mark |
| Experience | "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." | Twain, Mark |
| Experience | "If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires." | Van Buren, Abigail |
| Experience | "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser." | W. Gardner, John |
| Experience | "The years teach much which the days never knew." | Waldo Emerson, Ralph |
| Experience | "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." | Wilde, Oscar |
| Experience | "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." | Wilde, Oscar |
