There are many arts among men, the knowledge of which is acquired bit by bit by experience. For it is experience that causes our life to move forward by the skill we acquire, while want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance.' – Plato

Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald.' – Belgian Proverb

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.' – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.' – William Osler

Not the fruit of experience, but the experience itself, is the end.' – Walter Pater

Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it's all an experience.' – Roy T. Bennett

Life is a journey with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experiences to enjoy.' – Anonymous

Experience is a lesson of the past to lessen the burden of the future.' – Michael Sage