Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.--Oscar Wilde

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.--Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.--Elbert Hubbard

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.--Katherine Anne Porter ("St. Augustine and the Bullfight" The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter)

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.--Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)