No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.-Heraclitus
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.-Soren Kierkegaard
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.-John W. Gardner
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.-Rita Mae Brown
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. – Sally Ride
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.-Paulo Coelho
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.-Frank McCourt
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.-Oscar Wilde
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.-Queen Latifah
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
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.-Immanuel Kant
My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.-Agnetha Faltskog
Experience is a great teacher.-John Legend
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. – James Russell Lowell
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.-Vince Lombardi
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.-William Nicholson
Adventure is worthwhile.-Aesop
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.-Samuel Butler
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.-Heinrich Heine
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.-Khalil Gibran
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.-Sai Baba
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.-John Stuart Mill
My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.-Ally Sheedy
There’s a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It’s impossible to be mature without having lived. – Amy Grant
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.-Abraham Lincoln
The years teach much which the days never know.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.-Emily Dickinson
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.-Mark Twain
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.-Patrick Henry
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.-Henry Miller
I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.-Maya Angelou
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.-Andre Gide
The only source of knowledge is experience.-Albert Einstein
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. – John Ruskin
All experience is an arch, to build upon.-Adams
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.-John Keats
I think we are a product of all our experiences.-Sanford I. Weill
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.-Clarence Day
Experience is the teacher of all things.-Julius Caesar
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.-Roger Ascham
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
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.-Dag Hammarskjold
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.-Friedrich August von Hayek
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe
Experience teaches only the teachable.-Aldous Huxley
A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.-Albert Camus
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.-Mao Zedong
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.-Franklin P. Jones
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.-Isadora Duncan
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?-Voltaire
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.-Walter Pater
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. – Benjamin Franklin
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.-John Frusciante
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.-Albert Einstein
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.-Andre Gide
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.-George Bernard Shaw