Often, there is nothing you can say
about experience, but I think it’s important to include it,
even when it isn’t. I’ve collected a lot of quotes from people
who have had more experience than I, and whose experience is
helpful to… experience.

Experience is a grindstone; and it
is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not
ground. —
 Josh Billings

Experience is by industry achieved,
And perfected by the swift course of time. —
 William
Shakespeare

Experience keeps a dear school, but
fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is
true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — Benjamin Franklin

The education of circumstances is
superior to that of tuition. — William Wordsworth

It is good to learn what to avoid
by studying the misfortunes of others. — Publius Syrius

The experience of others adds to
our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. — Hosea Ballou

All truly wise thoughts have been
thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly
ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take
firm root in our personal experience. — Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe

He knows the water best who has
waded through it. — Danish Proverb

If you would know the road ahead,
ask someone who has traveled it. — Chinese Proverb

The years teach much which the days
never know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who come last enter with
advantage. — They are born to the wealth of antiquity. — The
materials for judging are prepared, and the foundations of
knowledge are laid to their hands. — Besides, if the point was
tried by antiquity, antiquity would lose it, for the present
age is really the oldest, and has the largest experience to
plead. — Collier

All experience is an arch to build
upon. — Henry Brook Adams

Experience is a jewel, and it had
need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. — William Shakespeare

Experience is a safe light to walk
by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future
from the same means which have secured it in times past. — Wendell Phillips

Pick up a grain a day and add to
your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power
of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains. — John S. Hart

That learning which thou gettest by
thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which
thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler
exceeds that which is got by reading. — Thomas à Kempis

A moment’s insight is sometimes
worth a life’s experience. — Oliver Wendall Holmes

Helpful Hint: Experience is a part of the
KSEs model of Job Fit and the Maturation
Trajectory Hypothesis (MTH) of
@F-L-O-W. Experience is
just what it is, the realization of what happens, when it
happens and how it feels when it happens, even when we are
unaware of it happening.

Action Step: Notice what thoughts, memories, and sensations were part of your experience of reading this TPOV.  Enjoy the
experience