Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ~Vernon Sanders Law
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb
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, Last Chance to See
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown
If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader
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
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~Aldous Leonard Huxley
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~Proverb
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, Last Chance to See
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. ~Author Unknown
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~Hindu Proverb
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown
If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon. ~Doug Rader
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
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Soren Kierkegaard
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb