I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.
A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public, and learning the instrument as one goes on.
What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgement.
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
