These are our Favorite collection of Experience Quotes and Sayings.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
~Alfred Sheinwold
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
~Aldous Huxley
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~Auguste Rodin
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
~John Maxwell
Every moment is an experience.
~Jake Roberts
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
~Samuel Butler
Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
~Ralph Marston
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
~Mark Twain
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
~Rita Mae Brown
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake.
~ Luis Miguel
Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
~Mark van Doren
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~John W. Gardner
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
~Elbert Hubbard
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
~Oscar Wilde
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
~Mark Twain
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
~Fred Brooks
Experience is the teacher of all things.
~Julius Caesar
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
~ Tom Bodett
Suffering brings experience.
~One of very true experience sayings by Aeschylus
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
~Chinese Proverb
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
~Karl Kraus
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
~Josh Billings
A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
~Georges Clemenceau
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
~Isadora Duncan
If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.
~Doug Rader
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
~ C.S. Lewis
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.
~Oscar Wilde
There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.
~Tom Krause
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.
~Abigail Van Buren
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
~ Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
~James Anthony Froude
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
~Paulo Coelho
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
~Josh Billings
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise
~ Sara Teasdale
Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
~Clarence Day
All life is an experiment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
~David T. Wolf
The only source of knowledge is experience
~ Albert Einstein
A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.
~Colette
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
~~Author Unknown
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
~Benjamin Franklin
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
~ Kevin Arnold
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
~Laurence J. Peter
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.”
~Pete Seeger
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
~Rita Mae Brown
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune
~ William Edward Hartpole
Life must be understood backwards; but… it must be lived forward.
~Soren Kierkegaard
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
~John Gardner
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
~ Stan Smith
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
~Auguste Rodin
Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
~Albert Einstein
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death
~ Robert Fulghum
The years teach much which the days never know.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college.
~Hubert Humphrey
Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
~James Anthony Froude
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
~ Oscar Wilde
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