Learning from Experience

When people tell me they've learned from experience, I tell them the trick is to learn from other people's experience. -Warren Buffett

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. -Alfred Sheinwold

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Leonard Huxley

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. -Oscar Wilde

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. -Auguste Rodin

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-Abigail Van Buren

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. -Elbert Hubbard

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
-Rita Mae Brown