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

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
Julius Caesar

“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”
Oscar Wilde

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

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.”
Abigail Van Buren

“Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
Albert Einstein

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

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde

“A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.”
James Joyce

“Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.”
Proverb

“Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Chinese Proverb

“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John Gardner

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Experience is the extract of suffering.”
Arthur Helps

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
Voltaire