Experience

"By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty."

"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience."

"A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn."

"To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind."

"In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide."

"Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com' è duro calle Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale."

"Only so much do I know, as I have lived."

"Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art."

"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."

"We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters."

"Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence."

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience."

"Stultorum eventus magister est."

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

"Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus."

"What man would be wise, let him drink of the river That bears on his bosom the record of time; A message to him every wave can deliver To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb."

"Who heeds not experience, trust him not."

"Nam in omnibus fere minus valent præcepta quam experimenta."

"I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravl'd world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move."

"And others' follies teach us not, Nor much their wisdom teaches, And most, of sterling worth, is what Our own experience preaches."

"Experto crede Roberto."

"Learn the lesson of your own pain—learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul—in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love."

"Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfährt."

"Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone."

"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

"I've seen the elephant, and I've heard the owl, and I've been to the other side of the mountain."

"All experience is an arch wherethro’ gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move."

"Experience is the best proof and we love to go through every experience.[ Proverbs and sayings about experience]"

"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other."