“I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.”– Peter De Vries Related Quotes “Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.”– Stan Smith “The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”– William Feather “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”– Charlie Parker