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

"The reward of suffering is experience."
-- Aeschylus

"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-- Aldous Huxley

"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
-- Alphonse De Lamartine

"Experience is the key to greatness."
-- Arthur Williams

"A little experience often upsets a lot of theory."
-- Cadman

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgment."
-- Cousin Woodman

"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."
-- Henry Ford

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."
-- Henry James

"Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been."
-- Josh Billings

"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
-- Josh Billings

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
-- Karl Marx

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
-- Oscar Wilde

"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
-- Oscar Wilde

"The years teach us much the days never knew."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around."
-- Terry Mccormick

"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
-- Vernon S. Law

"Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end."
-- Walter Pater