Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.
Warren W. Wiersbe
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert Kiyosaki
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
Cormac McCarthy
What youth learns, age does not forget.
Danish proverbs
Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Age does not always help against foolishness.
Norwegian proverbs
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.
Irish proverbs
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it. Just live it.
C.S Lewis
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Mark Twain
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
