EXPERIENCE

Related Subjects: Innocence, Knowledge, Life, Observation, Wisdom

1. All experience is an arch, to build upon.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. I am fully aware that the fact of my not being a man of letters may cause certain arrogant persons to think that they may with reason censure me, alleging that I am a man ignorant of book-learning. . . Do they not know that my subjects require for their exposition Experience rather than Words of Others? And sure Experience has been the Mistress of whoever has written well, I take her as my mistress and to her in all points make my appeal.—DA VINCI, Notebooks
   

4. Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.—DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
   

5. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.—FRANKLIN, Poor Richard
   

6. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.—PATRICK HENRY
   

7. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.—ALDOUS HUXLEY
   

8. The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.—LOWELL, Spenser
   

9. Till old experience do attain
   To something like prophetic strain.—MILTON, Il Penseroso
   

10. Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.—Proverb
    

11. Experience is the great baffler of speculation.—Proverb
    

12. Experience is good if not bought too dear.—Proverb
    

13. All is but lip-wisdom, that wanteth experience.—Proverb
    

14. A burnt child dreads the fire.—Proverb
    

15. Practice is the best of all in­structors.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

16. What! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

17. Unless experience be a jewel.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

18. One must learn
    By doing the thing; for though you think you know it
    You have no certainty, until you try.—SOPHOCLES, Trachiniae
    

19. Others' follies teach us not,
    Nor much their wisdom teaches;
    And most, of sterling worth, is what
    Our own experience preaches.—TENNYSON, Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue

20. Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.—OSCAR WILDE,Lady Windermere's Fan