70+ Quotes on Experience and Why Its Irreplaceable
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the busses with people.
The years teach much which the days never know.
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
The world is your school.
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Only so much do I know, as I have lived.
A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
One faces the future with one's past.
From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Experience is the biggest of all schools.
Experience is a great teacher.
Today is yesterday's pupil.
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Life is a series of experience, each of which makes us bigger even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Life is trying things to see if they work.
Suffering brings experience.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments.
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The burned hand teaches best.
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
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.
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake.
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. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
