"A little experience often upsets a lot of theory."
– Cadman
"Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy."
- Carlyle, Miscellaneous Essays
"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."
– Harold S. Geneen
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
- Lowell, Among My Books
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
- George Bernard Shaw, Maxims For Revolutionists
