There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.