Experience Quotes
+60Leave Ego, otherwise everyone would leave you
+34Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Anonymous
+28Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- Anonymous
+26We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
- Anonymous
+24By far the best proof is experience.
- Anonymous
+20Suffering brings experience.
- Anonymous
+18A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Anonymous
+16Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
- Anonymous
+16Experience teaches only the teachable.
- Anonymous
+14It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
- Anonymous
+14Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
- Anonymous
+12One faces the future with one’s past.
- Anonymous
+10Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson after wards.
- Anonymous
+10Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Anonymous
+8Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
- Anonymous
+6Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
- Anonymous
+3If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
- Abigail Van Buren
+3One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
- Aristotle
+1Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
+1All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
- Georges Clemenceau
+1Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
- Josh Billings
+1A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
- Colette
+1Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
- David T. Wolf
+1No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
- Hindu Proverb
+1Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.
- Oscar Levant
+1We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
- Bernard Malamud
+1Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
- Stephen Leacock
+1If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.
- Doug Rader
+1Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
- Mark van Doren
+1God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard
+1Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
- Rita Mae Brown
+1Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience or convictions.
- Dag Hammarskjold
+1Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
+1A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
+1Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
- Samuel Butler
+1Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
- Alfred Sheinwold
+1Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.
- Hubert Humphrey
+1I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
- Lou Holtz
+1Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
- Andre Gide
