Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. – Mark van Doren
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. – John Gardner
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960
All that I know I learned after I was thirty. – Georges Clemenceau
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. – Laurence J. Peter
The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson
Climb the ladder of dead mistakes to your goal. – Terri Guillemets
Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury
We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. – Bernard Malamud, The Natural
You must learn to make the whole world your school. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. – Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard
The only source of knowledge is experience. – Albert Einstein
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. – C. S. Lewis
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt
