Sayings about Experience
Experience is the best teacher. ~ Traditional Proverb
Don’t just take love, experience it. ~ Iranian Proverbs
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect. ~ Arabian Proverb
The tongue of experience utters the most truth. ~ Arabian Proverb
Experience costs blood. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
The one who has had no experience of evil cannot know the worth of what is good. ~ Maltese Proverbs
We start as fools and become wise through experience. ~ Tanzanian Proverbs
When a woman laughs an experienced man will know how much it will cost him. ~ Indian Proverbs
Spirit is the sword and experience is the sharpening stone. ~ Arabian Proverb
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. ~ Hindu Proverbs
A proverb is the child of experience. ~ English Proverbs
As long as you live, you learn. ~ Latvian Proverbs
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~ Chinese Proverb
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. ~ Italian Proverbs
Each trip gives you its own uniqueness. ~ African Proverb
If age and experience came at birth, we would have neither youth nor mirth. ~ Russian Proverb
A burnt child dreads the fire. ~ English Proverbs
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. ~ Traditional Proverb
The horses of hope gallop, but the asses of experience go slowly. ~ Russian Proverb
The dying cannot leave their wisdom or experience to their heirs. ~ Italian Proverbs
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. ~ Chinese Proverb
I know by my own pot how the others boil. ~ French Proverb
A single bad experience is worth a thousand threats. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Ask the experienced rather than the learned. ~ Arabian Proverb
One bad experience is worth more than a thousand threats. ~ Turkish Proverbs
Proverbs are the children of experience. ~ Sierra Leonean Proverbs
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise. ~ German Proverbs
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Everything is worn out with usage — except for experience. ~ Turkish Proverb
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it. ~ Greek Proverb
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. ~ Persian Proverb
Walk a mile in my moccasins to learn where they pinch. ~ Canadian Proverb
Experience is the mother of science. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you have not been to two different bazaars, then you do not know what the best value is. ~ African Proverb
Sayings about Experience
God sends experience to paint men’s portraits. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. ~ James Anthony Froude
Experience makes us wise. ~ William Hazlitt
Experience is the teacher of fools. ~ Titus Livy
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ~ Alphonse de Lamartine
Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. ~Louis Charles Alfred de Musset
Experience is the extract of suffering. ~ Sir Arthur Helps
Experience is the common schoolhouse of fools and ill men. Men of wit and honesty be otherwise instructed. ~ Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus
Experience is retrospect knowledge. ~ Hosea Ballou
Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. ~ Aldous Huxley
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art. ~ James Anthony Froude,
Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. ~ Manilius
Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. ~ Wendell Phillips
Experience is a keen knife that hurts while it extracts the cataract that blinds. ~ J. de Finod
Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. ~ William Shakespeare
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. ~ Vernon Law
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise.
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
Experience is largely non-transferable.
You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. ~ William Hazlitt
Years teach us more than books. ~ Berthold Auerbach
Who heeds not experience, trust him not. ~ John Boyle O’Reilly
What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion. ~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ~ Isadora Duncan
To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience. ~ Bayard Taylor
To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another’s expense. ~ Plautus
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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. ~ James H. Aughey
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience only is tangible. ~ Hosea Ballou
The years teach much which the days never know. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. ~ Sir William Osler
The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. ~ Hosea Ballou
The ever-burning lamp of accumulated wisdom. ~ George William Curtis
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. ~ Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.
Suffering brings experience. ~ Aeschylus
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. ~ Joseph Roux
Only so much do I know, as I have lived. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ~ James Russell Lowell
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~ Auguste Rodin
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. ~ Walter Horatio Pater
Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is the nature of experience to come to us only when too late for use. ~ Madame de Chateauneuf Rieiux
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. ~ Roger Ascham
Is there any one so wise as to learn by the experience of others? ~ Voltaire
In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. ~ James Beattie
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. ~ Patrick Henry
Great men never require experience. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~ Rita Mae Brown
Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not ground. ~Henry Wheeler Shaw
Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us. ~ Amos Bronson Alcott
Everything is worth seeing once, and the more one sees the less one either wonders or admires. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
Conflicts bring experience; and experience brings that growth in grace which is not to be attained by any other means. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. ~ Roger Ascham
Believe one who has tried it. ~ Virgil
As between mileage and experience choose experience. ~ Clifton Fadiman
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. ~ Paul Bourget
Learning from Experience: Memory and the Teacher’s Account of Teaching. ~ Book preview
