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Quotes about Experience


Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

Matthew Green

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Patrick Henry

Experience is the teacher of fools. [Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]

Titus Livy

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another. [Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Manilius (Manlius or Mallius) (Marcus or Caius)

Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way, And giv'st access, though secret she retire.

John Milton

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta.]

Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)

Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Pete Seeger

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Minna Antrim

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

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

F P Jones

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Bette Davis

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

James Rodin

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

Vernon Sanders Law

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

J A Froude

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr Thomas Dooley

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