The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time
Henrik Ibsen
The triumph of hope over experience
Samuel Johnson
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last
William Morris
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylor
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.
Ellen Goodman
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
Bette Greene
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions
Joseph Roux
Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power
George Washington
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
Martin Luther
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them
Friedrich Nietzsche