“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

Pete Seeger (1919–2014) American folk singer

“I didn’t just experiment with marijuana — if you know what I mean.”

James Carville (1944) political writer, consultant and United States Marine

“Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I don't know if it's what you want, but it's what you get.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“You have to know what you want to get it.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays