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| Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself. ~ Alfred Sheinwold |
| Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley, |
| Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~ Proverb |
| 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, |
| 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. ~ Mark Twain |
| The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~ Author Unknown |
| No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~ Hindu Proverb |
| Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~ Auguste Rodin |
| God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. ~ Samuel Butler |
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| Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~ Author Unknown |
| Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~ Rita Mae Brown |
| If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~ Doug Rader |
| 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 want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~ Simeon Strunsky |
| You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~ John Updike |
| Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~ Oscar Wilde, |
| 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. ~ Pete Seeger |
| Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~ Soren Kierkegaard |
| Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~ Robert Brault |
| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~ Mark Twain |
| Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. ~ Josh Billings |
| Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~ David T. Wolf |
| A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~ Colette |
| Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~ Stephen Leacock, |
| Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. ~ Author Unknown |
| The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it. ~ Jimmy Connors |
| In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach |
| A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~ Herb Caen |