Experience(22)

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

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
John W. Gardner

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

"Life must be understood backwards; but... it must be lived forward."
Soren Kierkegaard

"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens."
Stephen King

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

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."
Auguste Rodin

"Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired."
Joseph Roux

"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

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