“If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.” ~ Doug Rader

“Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience” ~ Ranvir Shorey

“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills”

“Every artist was first an amateur.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.”

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” ~ Jean Paul Getty

“Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.” ~ James A. Froude

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” ~ Vernon Sanders Law

“Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.” ~ Rita Mae Brown

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” ~ Randy Pausch

“Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.” ~ Bergen Evans

“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” ~ Chinese Proverb (The Golden Words)