Experience Quotes

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

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

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Experience is only half of experience

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas

Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much
Delacroix

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience

Time does not, and shall never, equal experience.
Alistair Harding

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.î

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

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







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