Quotes on experience
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Gardner, John W.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Seeger, Pete
Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
Doren, Mark van
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
Wolf, David T.
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Sheinwold, Alfred
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
Proverb, Hindu
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
Keats, John
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Kierkegaard, Soren
Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Bolívar, Simón
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Adams, Douglas
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Brown, Rita Mae
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, Chinese
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Ebner-Eschenbach, Marie
The world is your school.
Fischer, Martin H.
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Proverb