There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

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

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim Carrey

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
John Dewey