“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”

“Those who are successful give credit to their mistakes and give them a polished new name, experience.”

“Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.”

“… reality, the name we give to the common experience.”

“It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.”

“I would give great praise to the physician whose mistakes are small, for perfect accuracy is seldom to be seen, since many physicians seem to me to be in the same plight as bad pilots, who, if they commit mistakes while conducting the ship in a calm do not expose themselves, but when a storm and violent hurricane overtake them, they then, from their ignorance and mistakes, are discovered to be what they are, by all men, namely, in losing their ship.”

“Why is Einstein's theory better than Lorentz's theory? It would be a mistake to argue that Einstein's theory gives an explanation of Michelson's experiment, since it does not do so. Michelson's experiment is simply taken over as an axiom.”

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”