"Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." ― Earl Wilson Topic(s): Experience More From Earl Wilson "If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments." "Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure." "Always remember, money isn’t everything – but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense." More In Experience "You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin "The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn’t find a place for myself, for years and years."― Isabel Allende "Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people."― Muqtada al Sadr