Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. – Paulo Coelho
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. – George Washington
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience. – Mahatma Gandhi
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. – Will Rogers
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. – Audrey Hepburn
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. – Woody Allen
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. – Edgar Allan Poe
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. – Henry David Thoreau
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else. – Joseph Campbell
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. – George Washington
Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. – Jim Rohn
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. – George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
