Famous experience quotations

   In youth we learn; in age we understand.  Nice Word by Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

   You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.  Meaningful Quotation by Stephen King, The Stand

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.  Wise Phrase by Samuel Butler, Speech at the Somerville Club, 27 February 1895

   Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.  Wise Phrase by Andre Gide, Le traite du Narcisse, 1891

   We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.  Famous Saying by Bernard Malamud, The Natural

   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.  Nice Word by Pete Seeger

   All that I know I learned after I was thirty.  Meaningful Quotation by Georges Clemenceau

   The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.  Wise Phrase by Proverb

   Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.  Wise Phrase by Soren Kierkegaard

   We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.  Famous Saying by Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

   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.  Nice Word by Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897

   Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.  Meaningful Quotation by Aldous Leonard Huxley, Texts and Pretexts, 1932

   No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.  Good Quote by Hindu Proverb

   Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.  Wise Phrase by Mark van Doren

   Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.  Wise Phrase by Chinese Proverb

   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.  Famous Saying by Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

   I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.  Nice Word by Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960

   Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.  Meaningful Quotation by Alfred Sheinwold

   Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.  Good Quote by Author Unknown

   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.  Wise Phrase by John Keats

   Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.  Wise Phrase by Josh Billings

   Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.  Famous Saying by Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896

   If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.  Nice Word by Doug Rader



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