Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Proverb
You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning… a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.
Joseph Campbell
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Now, a lifetime of experience has left me bitter and cynical.
Calvin & Hobbes
