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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.

Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

A prune is a plum with experience.

You don't learn anything the second time you're kicked by a mule.

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, Last Chance to See

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.--Muhammad Ali (1942-____)

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.'--Carl Barney, quoted in `` Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives,'' Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. Brown, Rita Mae

The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.-Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972)

Experience, to most men, is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. -- Samuel Coleridge

Few know the use of life before 'tis past.--John Dryden, quo. J. R. Lowell, "My Study Windows"

The years teach much which the days never know.--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience

...that, by all things, they may come to know more of the power, holiness, justice, truth, goodness, and glory of God in Christ. We use to say," Experience teaches fools." Surely there is not an experienced saint, but will find, that by all the good things and bad things he hath been trysted with, by all the various vicissitudes and changes of providence, he hath come to see more of God than he saw before. RALPH ERSKINE

If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.-- Euripides

If you take all the experience and judgement of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.--Henry Ford

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. --Benjamin Franklin, _Poor Richard's Almanac_

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.-Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)_Poor Richard's Almanac_ [1743], "December"

How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint? Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.--Robert Frost (1874-1963) In "The Peter Pyramid," by Laurence J. Peter.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. Aldous Huxley

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. --Aldous Huxley

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed." -- Samuel Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)

Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake when you make it again. --F. P. Jones

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine---things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. --John Keats

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. -- Carolyn Kenmore

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test first before presenting the lesson. --Vernon Law

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. --James Russell Lowell

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, moulding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in moulding us, shaping us.-- Orison Swett Marden

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised until personal experience has brought it home.--John Stuart Mill

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.- Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "The Habit of Being," 1979.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it .... This is the condition of children and barbarians, in whom instinct has learned nothing from experience.
George Santayana (1863-1952), Life of Reason, vol. 1, chap. 12, p. 284 (1905)

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.-- Harriet Beecher Stowe, letter to her twin daughters

Experience - the name men give to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.--George E. Woodberry