If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Others' follies teach us not Nor much their wisdom teaches; And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches.

There's nothing in the world so unfair as a man who has no experience of life; he thinks nothing is done right except what he's doing himself.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

A fool learns from his experience. A wise person learns from the experience of others.

We learn geology the day after the earthquake.