Quotations on Experience
Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.
-Anonymous
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain
Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-W. Alistair B. Fraser
When you get hurt, use it.
-Ernest Hemingway
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
-Heinrich Heine
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
-Anonymous
I am guided by one lamp: experience.
-Patrick Henry
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're too old to get the job.
-Unknown
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
-Anonymous
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
-David T. Wolf

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