Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution.
Bill Maher

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson

All experience helps when you write.
Jerome Lawrence

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
Orville Wright