Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.

Suffering brings experience.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

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.

Life is a series of experience, each of which makes us bigger even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

The world is your school.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.

We think too much and feel too little.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the busses with people.

Experience is a great teacher.

Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.

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.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake.

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.