"Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
Jim Rohn
75 Top-Notch Quotes about Experience
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
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"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
(16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's
most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his many epigrams, his plays which are still revived, and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.
"Experience increases our wisdom, but doesn't reduce our follies."
Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw
(20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885) He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th
century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.
"Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes."
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"There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply."
Josh Billings was the pen name of humorist born Henry Wheeler Shaw
(20 April 1818 – 14 October 1885) He was perhaps the second most famous humor writer and lecturer in the United States in the second half of the 19th
century after Mark Twain, although his reputation has not fared so well with later generations.
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
Benjamin Franklin
(January 17, 1706 [January 6, 1705 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted
polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity.
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
Vernon Sanders Law
(born March 12, 1930) is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for 16 seasons (1950-1951 and 1954-1967) for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience."
George Bernard Shaw
(26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama and he wrote more than 60 plays.
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
Aldous Leonard Huxley
(26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along ! You must do things you think you cannot do."
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
(October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
