Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph Addison

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks