Proverbs on Experience - Famous Quotes on Experience

Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it. A person with considerable experience in a specific field can gain a reputation as an expert. The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.

Famous Quotes on Experience

1. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. – Vernon Law
2. Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. – Franklin P. Jones
3. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. – Aldous Huxley
4. Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald. – Belgian Proverb
5. Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy. – Carlyle
6. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. – Lowell
7. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? – Voltaire
8. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books. - Benjamin Disraeli
9. Experience keeps a dear school; but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. – Benjamin Franklin
10. Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger. – Henry Ford
11. There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. – John Stuart Mill
12. If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience? – George Bernard Shaw
13. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. – Minna Antrim
14. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. – Patrick Henry
15. A burnt child dreads the fire. – English Proverb
16. Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows. – Alfred De Musset
17. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
18. Experience is a jewel, and it had needed to be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate. – William Shakespeare
19. Experience is good if not bought too dear. – Proverb
20. Experience is the best teacher. – Proverb
21. There's only one thing more painful than learning experience, and that is not learning from experience. - Anonymous