Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.