Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old experience quotes, experience sayings, and experience proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
A stumble may prevent a fall. English (on experience)
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After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser. Benjamin Franklin
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All experience is education for the soul. unknown
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An old ox makes a straight furrow. Spanish (on experience)
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By crawling, a child learns to stand. Hausa (West African) (on experience)
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Experience is the best teacher. Latin Proverb
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Experience is the mother of wisdom. unknown
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. James Anthony Froude
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If you are not a fish, how can you tell if the fish are happy?Chinese (on experience)
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If youth knew, if age could. Henri Estienne
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If you've never run aground, you've never been anywhere! unknown
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It is foolish to try to imitate the skills of others. Aesop
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It pays to be prepared. Aesop
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It takes a heap of licks to hit a nail in the dark. African American (on common sense)
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Learn from other peoples mistakes. unknown
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Learn from your mistakes. unknown
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Learning is best when put into practice. unknown
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
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Only the sufferers know how their bellies ache. Burmese (on experience)
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The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one. George Herbert
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The early bird catches the worm. William Camden
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The grand instructor, time. Edmund Burke
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The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine. Benjamin Franklin
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The person with burnt fingers asks for tongs. Samoan (on experience)
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The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Well begun is half done. Aristotle
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You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. unknown
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Everything we do is sowing, and all of our experiences are harvests.Khemetic Saying
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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.Kongfuzi
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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.Chinese Saying
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Practice is the supreme teacher.Publilius Syrus
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As the eye needs light to see, so the soul needs labor to comprehend.Philo of Alexandria
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If you have not lived through something, it is not true,Kabir
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We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.Blaise Pascal
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Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.Lord Chesterfield
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When the bird and the book disagree, always believe the bird.John James Audubon
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Never give up what you have seen for what you have heard.Swahili Saying
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The years teach much what the days never know.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.John Stuart Mill
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Experience is a grindstone and it is lucky for us if we get brightened by it— not ground.Josh Billings
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.Booker T. Washington
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Helen Keller
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Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience. There is no other way to know.Vivekananda
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Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who bears it.Louis Celine
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what he does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
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Experience teaches only the teachable.Huxley
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We learn the rope of life by untying the knots.Jean Toomer
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterward.Vernon Law
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The best lessons, the best sermons, are those that are lived.Yolanda King
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Nothing has happened to you unless you make much of it.Menander
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Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.Thoreau
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.Samuel Smiles
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With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding.Job 12:12
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Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.Thomas Carlyle
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The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We shall have to learn to refrain from doing things merely because we know how to do them.Theodore Fox
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I was told by a very smart man a long time ago that talent always beats experience. Because by the time you get experience, the talent's gone.Pat Corrales
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The pilgrims didn't have any experience when they first arrived here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have had anybody walking on the moon.Doug Rader
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Ask the experienced rather than the learned.Arab Saying
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The tongue of experience has the most truth.Arab Sayings
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The ground I have already passed over enables me to see my way into that which is before me.Thomas Jefferson
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But all theory must lead to experience, and every constitution has its own laws.Thomas Jefferson
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Forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading.Thomas Jefferson
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The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.Steve Jobs