The Value of Experience

"Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience."
Katherine Tingley

"Today is yesterday’s pupil."
Thomas Fuller

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
James Russell Lowell

"Whoever lives is always learning."
Giovanni Battista Gelli

"Each of us doesn’t have to reinvent the world. You don’t have to try to do everything yourself. You can learn just as much by watching and listening as by doing."
Bessie Delaney

Painful Experiences

"We cannot afford to forget any experience, even the most painful."
Dag Hammarskjöld

"Deep experience is never peaceful."
Henry James

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires."
Abigail Van Buren

"If the price of which you shall have a true experience is that of sorrow, buy the truth at that price."
C. H. Spurgeon

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe

And Finally

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

Experience allows you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones