Experience Quotes and Sayings
Most good judgment comes from experience.
Most experience comes from bad judgment.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- Mark Twain
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
- Lou Holtz
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
- Barbara W. Tuchman
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
- James Joyce
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
- James Anthony Froude
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
- Auguste Rodin
The world is your school.
- Martin H. Fischer
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
- James Russel Lowell
Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
- Victoria Holt
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
- Pete Seeger
Suffering brings experience.
- Aeschylus
Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.
- Michael Eisner
We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
- Sasha Azevedo
By far the best proof is experience.
- Francis Bacon
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
- John W. Gardner
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
- James Anthony Froude