A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is but a process of change.
-William James
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
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
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
Experience teaches only the teachable.
-Aldous Huxley
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
-Terry Pratchett
