Experience

28 quotes.

• Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

• Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

  Rita Mae Brown

• Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

  Vernon Sanders Law

• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

  George Bernard Shaw

• An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

  Donald R. Perry Marquis

• Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

  Heinrich Heine

• Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

  Jimmy Connors

• Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

  Anonymous

• Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

• Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

  Oscar Wilde

• Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

  F.P. Jones

• Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

  Anonymous

• Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

  Derwood Fincher

• Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

  Anonymous

• Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

  Anonymous

• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

• It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

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• It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

  Esther Meynell

• The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

  Philip Knight

• There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.

  Jacob M. Braude

• Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.

  Anonymous

• True love is like a psychic experience. Everyone tells ghost stories, but few have ever seen a ghost.

  Anonymous

• War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

  Desiderius Erasmus

• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

  Benjamin Whorf

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid.

  Mark Twain

• You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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