~ Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. ~
~ Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since. ~
~ Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience ~
~ Time does not, and shall never, equal experience. ~
~ Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. ~
~ Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~
~ To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed ~
~ In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts ~
~ Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy ~
~ Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards ~
~ Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain ~
~ Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. ~