Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. ~Author Unknown
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. ~John Keats
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~Colette
The problem is that when you get it, you’re too damned old to do anything about it. ~Jimmy Connors, on experience
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John Gardner
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960
