A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows where the dirt is.
The simpler solution may not be the right one, but it’s the one to consider first.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
Every time you graduate from the school of experience someone thinks up a new course.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
Experience is the one thing you can’t get on the easy payment plan.
Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldn’t do, so prepare and prevent rather than repair and repent.
When people fail to learn from sermons, they later learn from experience.
Past experience should be a guidepost, not a hitching post.
There’s no fool like an old fool—you just can’t beat experience.
Good judgment often comes from experience gained through poor judgment.
Some learn from experience—others never recover from it.
Let’s swap problems since all people know how to solve other people’s problems.
Experience is a good teacher, but a hard one. She gives the test first and the lesson afterward.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize the mistake when you make it again.
Ignorance is innocence—stupidity comes from experience.
There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
Experience is yesterday’s answer to today’s problems.
Experience is an expensive teacher sometimes.
Experience is what enables you to make a different mistake the next time.
There is nothing like a little experience to upset theory.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Experience is compulsory education.
Experience is what you get while you are looking for something else.
Experience gained the hard way brings knowledge that remains.
The most valuable thing you can learn from experience is not to rely on it.