Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. Elbert G Hubbard
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater
Experience is what you have after you’ve forgotten her name. Milton Berle
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement. Rita Mae Brown
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within – and make the point : This can be done. Abraham Maslow
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience. Harvey B. MacKay
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. Amos Bronson Alcott
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. E L Doctorow
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Doug Larson
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. Joseph Roux