Mark Twain

"All that I know I learned after I was thirty."

Georges Clemenceau

"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

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

Andre Gide

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

Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Oscar Wilde

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

Benjamin Franklin

"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 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

"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

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Samuel Butler

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

John W. Gardner

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

Soren Kierkegaard

"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

"The years teach much which the days never knew."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Josh Billings

"What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print."

Isadora Duncan

"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