Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them.

— Unknown Source

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

— Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, and philosopher, 1772-1834

Experience teaches only the teachable.

— Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

— Minna Antrim, U.S. writer, 1861-1950

Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them.

— Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.

— C.S. Lewis, British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

— Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935
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