You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.