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