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

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor

Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James

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

Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts

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

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine

Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

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

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks

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

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

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill

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

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard