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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 Twain1835–1910Following the Equator, vol. 1 (vol. 5 of The Writings of Mark Twain), chapter 11, epigraph, p. 125 (1897, reprinted 1968).
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
I don’t embrace trouble; that’s as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you’ll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
FJFranklin D. Jones1879–1967
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung1875–1961
Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
- Failure
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one’s hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Letter to Johann Kaspar Lavatar (6 March 1780)
- Youth
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry1736–1799Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (1775)
- Time
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
Paulo Coelhoborn 1947Aleph (2011)
- Life & Death
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Letters to and from Dr. Samuel Johnson, Vol. I, p. 137
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
Aeschylus525–456 BCPrometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
- Time
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XII
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux1834–1905Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866), Part 4, XXVIII (1886)
- Wisdom