1. Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world-Samuel Butler
2. Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue-Henry James
3. Never becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it-John Keats
4. Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy-Karl Marx
5. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him-Aldous Huxley
6. From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.-Aldous Huxley
7. You can't create experience. You must undergo it.-Albert Camus
8. My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.-Saint Augustine
9. The only source of knowledge is experience.-Albert Einstein
10. who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.-Persian proverb
11. Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.-Samuel Butler
12.  Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.-Henry James
13. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.-John Keats
14. Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.-Karl Marx
15. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley
16. From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. -Aldous Huxley
17. You can't create experience. You must undergo it.-Albert Camus
18. My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.-Saint Augustine
19. The only source of knowledge is experience.-Albert Einstein
20. He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.-Persian proverb
21.Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.-Unknown Source
22. One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.-Norman Vincent Peale
23. Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.-Chinese proverb
24. A burnt child dreads the fire.-English proverb
25. If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.-Italian proverb
26. One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.-Unknown Source
27. Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise-Unknown Source
28. Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.-Unknown Source
29. Everyone has 20/20 hindsight-Unknown Source
30. Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.-Unknown Source
31. Experience is largely non-transferable.-Unknown Source
32. Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.-Unknown Source
33. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.-Unknown Source
34. An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.-Alfred North Whitehead
35. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.-Oscar Wilde
36. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.-Oscar Wilde
37. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.-Auguste Rodin
38. In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.-Bertrand Russell
39. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.-George Bernard Shaw
40. Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.-George Bernard Shaw
41. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!-George Bernard Shaw
42. Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.-Henry David Thoreau
43. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either-Mark Twain
44. 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.-Mark Twain
45. But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.-George Eliot
46. Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?-George Eliot
47. The more experiments you make the better.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
48. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
49. If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.-Henry Ford
50. Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.-Benjamin Franklin
51. Seek you counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them -Kahlil Gibran
52. It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.-Napoleon Hill
53. Experience teaches only the teachable.-Aldous Huxley
54. Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.-James Baldwin
55. Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.-James Baldwin
56. Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.-Ambrose Bierce
57. Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.-Ambrose Bierce
58. Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.-Josh Billings
59. Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.-Josh Billings
60. Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.-Elizabeth Bowen .
61. Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.-Elizabeth Barrett Browning
62. I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.-Buddha
63. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.-Nicolas Chamfort
64. When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
65. Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.-Gilbert Keith Chesterton
66. To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
67. Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.-Leonardo da Vinci
68. The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.-Henry James
69. Deep experience is never peaceful.-Henry James
70. It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.-Franz Kafka
71. Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.-Marshall Mcluhan
72. A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.-Friedrich Nietzsche .
73. Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
74. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.-Blaise Pascal
75. What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? -Georg C. Lichtenberg
76. We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.-Abraham Lincoln
77. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.-John Locke
78. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.-James Russell Lowell