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 SeegerLLDT

The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.  ~Jimmy Connors, on experienceDMCD

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.  ~Clarence Day, The Crow’s Nest

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Life is trying things to see if they work.  ~Ray Bradbury

You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again.  Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing.  Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.  ~Stephen King, The Stand

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.  ~John Gardner

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.  ~Mark van DorenCUL

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.  ~Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.  ~David T. Wolf, as said to Robert Byrne, MBT p140

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.  ~Rita Mae Brown

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.  ~Samuel Butler, "Speech at the Somerville Club," 27 February 1895MBT

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.  ~Auguste Rodin

Experience is not what happens to a man.  It is what a man does with what happens to him.  ~Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932, p. 5MBT

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don’t always have to resume where you left off.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.  ~Author Unknown

The world is your school.  ~Martin H. FischerFFM

I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.  ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960LCD

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.  ~Georges ClemenceauLLDT

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses:  We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.  ~John Keats

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

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands.  Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.  ~John UpdikeSG

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.  ~Thomas Jefferson