"The only source of knowledge is experience."

— Albert Einstein

"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."

— A.B. Alcott

"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."

— Aldous Huxley

"Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors."

— African Proverb

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

— Soren Kierkegaard

"Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."

— Henry James

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you."

— Wayne Dyer

"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do."

— Amelia Earhart

"Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us."

— A.B. Alcott