Experience Quotes


Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Abglo-Irish Experience.

The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux (1834-1886) French priest and writer.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
Italian proverb.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Eastern proverb.

What a man knows at fifty which he didn’t know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American Democratic Politician.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.
W.R.Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St.Paul’s London.

And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None Know so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English Poet.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) British author.

Experience is the extract of suffering.
A. Helps.

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Musset.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
Sir.P.Sidney.

Experience is the successive disenchantment of the things of life. It is reason enriched by the spoils of the heart.
J.P.Senn.

Experience is the shroud of illusions.
Finod.

This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Coleridge.

However learned or eloquent, men knows nothing truly that he has not learned from experience.
Wieland.

Experience is the Lord’s school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
John Newton.

Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Franklin.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Terence.

The rules which experience suggests are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.
R.S. Storrs.

Experience joined with common sense, to mortals is a providence.
Green.

He cannot be a perfect man, not being tried and tutored in the world. Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time.
Shakespeare.

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