Experience Quotes

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.

We know nothing of what will happen in the future, but in the analogy of experience.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

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

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

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

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.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

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.

By far the best proof is experience.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

Experience proves this, or that, or nothing, according to the preconceptions we bring to it.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

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.

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

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

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

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.