Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

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

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

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than read more

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.