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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
The only source of knowledge is experience
The only source of knowledge is experience
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
"Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high."
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
 Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's 
bread, and how sad a path it read more 
 Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's 
bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's 
stairs.
 [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale
  Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle
   Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.] 
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
 A sadder and a wiser man,
 He rose the morrow morn.  
 A sadder and a wiser man,
 He rose the morrow morn.