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Learning From Experience Quotes

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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