Experience
“Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.”
—Minna Antrim
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
—Truman Capote
“In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix must first burn.”
—Octavia Butler
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
—Rita Mae Brown
“The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it, you’re too old to take advantage of it.”
—Jimmy Connors
“The best way to suppose what may come is to remember what is past.”
—Lord Halifax
“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
—Aldous Huxley
“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.”
—Herbert V. Prochnow
“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve.”
—Jon Krakauer
“We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.”
—John Pomfret
“All knowledge hurts.”
—Cassandra Clare
“I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that’s the whole joy.”
—Wayne Thiebaud
“Men are wise not in proportion to their experience but to their capacity for experience.”
—George Bernard Shaw
“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
—Thomas Paine
“We glory in tribulations also, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope.”
—Romans 5:3-4
FINAL THOUGHT
“Never say die until you’ve done it.”
—Malcolm Forbes
SOURCES: NAKED TRUTH AND VEILED ILLUSIONS, BY MINNA ANTRIM; EXPERIENCE, BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON; POLITICAL, MORAL AND MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS, BY LORD HALIFAX; THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE, BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES; REASON, BY JOHN POMFRET; A LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE ABBE RAYNAL ON THE AFFAIRS OF NORTH AMERICA, BY THOMAS PAINE; CITY OF BONES, BY CASSANDRA CLARE; ALMA MATER, BY RITA MAE BROWN; TEXTS AND PRETEXTS, BY ALDOUS HUXLEY.