[TrainedMonkey]

Article reminded me of the quote:

"Experience is something that we get right after we needed it most"

People can experience all kinds of things, acts of kindness, cruelty, logic, and compassion are some of them. As you gain experience your world begins to be colored by it. In that vein cruel person will see cruelty in others and seek violent solutions first because in his experience that is what works.

Of course nothing is absolute, thus above should not be taken out of context of random philosophical musing.

[busyant]

I've heard it said this way.

"In school, first you get the lesson, then you get the test. In life, it's the other way around."

[saganus]

And as one comedian (Quino) put it, when you have enough experience to enjoy life... you die. Ironic.