Experience Quotes and Sayings

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

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

By far the best proof is experience.

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

One faces the future with one’s past.

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

Suffering brings experience.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

The world is your school.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.