•“No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.” 
― Richelle E. Goodrich

•“Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...” 
― Lionel Suggs

•“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.” 
― Mikhail Gorbachev

•“Experience is a great teacher.” 
― John Legend 

•“More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them” 
― Harold J. Smith

•“If you fuel your journey on the enthusiasm of others, you are going to run out of gas.” 
― Rosen Topuzov

•“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.” 
― John Dewey

•“The years teach us much, which the days never knew.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Do not give hope where there is none. Do not turn away hope where there is seldom some.” 
― Rosen Topuzov

•“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” 
― Soren Kierkegaard 

•“Focus on what's ahead. Use what is behind.” 
― Donita K. Paul

•“Experience is the teacher of all things.” 
― Julius Caesar 

•“Love forever, love is free” 
― Rosen Topuzov

•“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” 
― Eckhart Tolle

•“An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.” 
― Don Marquis

•“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” 
― Mary Tyler Moore

•“I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything” 
― Charles Dickens

•“Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.” 
― Paul Cezanne

•“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” 
― Henry Ford

•“Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all, in my view, is not to have one.” 
― Nikos Kazantzakis

•“The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.” 
― Criss Jami

•“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.” 
― Oscar Wilde

•“The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.” 
― Melvin Jules Bukiet

•“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.” 
― Flannery O'Connor 

•“I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off.” 
― Meg Winkler

•“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” 
― George Bernard Shaw

•“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.” 
― Heinrich Heine 

•“This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.” 
― Michael David Lukas

•“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it” 
― John Keats

•“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” 
― Eleanor Roosevelt

•“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” 
― Blaise Pascal 

•“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.” 
― G.I. Gurdjieff

•“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.” 
― Patrick Henry 

•“Experience teaches only the teachable.” 
― Aldous Huxley 

•“Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.
― Jill Shalvis

•“I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.” 
― Ian McEwan

•“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.” 
―James Russell Lowell 

•“God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

•“If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.” 
― Toba Beta

•“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.” 
― Paulo Coelho

•“Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.” 
― John Dewey

•“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.” 
― Octavia E. Butler

•“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.” 
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

•“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.” 
―Abigail Van Buren   

•“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” 
― Ansel Adams

•“There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.” 
― Dan Simmons

•“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” 
― Oprah Winfrey

•“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.” 
― Walter Benjamin

•“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ” 
―Voltaire 

•“I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” 
― Martha Washington

•“Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.” 
― Erin McKean

•“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.” 
―Aldous Huxley 

•“experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other” 
― Benjamin Franklin

•“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.” 
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

•“Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.” 
― Criss Jami

•“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.” 
― Dr. Seuss

•“If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.” 
― L.M. Montgomery

•“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” 
― Auguste Rodin

•“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.” 
― Junot Díaz

•“Life truly is precious. Gather every moment of it into your arms & embrace it.” 
― Paula Abdul

•“A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.” 
―Miguel de Cervantes

•“Never mistrust, unless given a reason.” 
― Sonia Rumzi

•“There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more.” 
― Israelmore Ayivor