Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
Categories: experience

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatner
Categories: experience

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams "Last Chance to See"
Categories: experience

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
Categories: experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
Categories: experience

For time it is, age has great advantages;
Geoffrey Chaucer Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: age wisdom experience

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
Carolyn Kenmore Something More : Excavating Your Authentic Self
Categories: experience learning

There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle.
Samuel Butler The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: life age aging experience

If youth but knew, if old age but could.
Henri Estienne Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: age youth experience wisdom

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.
Robert Grudin Time and the Art of Living
Categories: experience growth learning

We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Talmuidic saying The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: perception experience bias

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: failure mistake experience

Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Greek proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age experience aging learning wisdom

It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: aging time experience memories

Let no one be discouraged by the thought of how much there is to learn. Each new step becomes a little surer, and each new grasp a little firmer.
Gertrude Jekyll Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: growth education learning experience just do it

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathon Swift Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: life living joy happiness experience

All experience is an arch to build on.
Henry Brooks Adams Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: experience life growth learning change

I am a part of all I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world whose margins fades
For ever and ever when I move.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Compact Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: experience growth change exploration discovery

We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Rabindranath Tagore Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: reality truth perception experience understanding

For the unlearned, old age is winter;
The Talmud Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: education knowledge experience wisdom aging

Each man believes only his experience.
Empedocles The Story of Thought
Categories: experience knowledge beliefs wisdom learning

With age comes wisdom.
American proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: age wisdom aging elder elderly experience

A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding.
Hebrew proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: knowledge education wisdom growth experience

There are always risks when you chase after a dream because growth requires that you leave your comfort zone and enter
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: risks dream growth failure success experience

By making choices, we learn to profit from our mistakes. Waiting for the perfect choice is to miss it all.
Alexandra Stoddard Making Choices : Discover the Joy in Living the Life You Want to Lead
Categories: choice decisions growth learning education experience

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: education learning experience life wisdom growth

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed...
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life...
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas Moore The Education of the Heart
Categories: education heart life experience vulnerability learning

All that is good in man lies in youthful feeling and mature thought.
Joseph Joubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: maturity wisdom experience enthusiasm enthusiastic character

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: progress growth change experience learning life success

How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: life living education learning knowledge wisdom experience

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: life meaning purpose goal experience risk safety

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: experience life advice learning education school of hard knocks

Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom.
Welsh proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: adversity challenges difficulties problems wisdom knowledge experience growth

O people of Zion, who live in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. How gracious he will be when you cry for help! As soon as he hears, he will answer you. Although the Lord gives you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, your teachers will be hidden no more; with your own eyes you will see them.  Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it."
Isaiah 30:19-21 Holy Bible
Categories: adversity challenges difficulties problems wisdom knowledge experience growth

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
John Dewey Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: ideals morals vision mission experience personal growth self-improvement

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own.
Margaret Mead Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: learning education appreciation gratitude flexibility cultural exchange experience

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Leo Buscaglia Born for Love
Categories: love learning failure experience actions relationships marriage friendships agape

But sage experience only comes with years.
Samuel Coleridge, from the poem Quae Nocent Docent (In Christ's Hospital Book) The Portable Coleridge
Categories: wisdom knowledge mature maturity age aging experience learning time growth

There is only one road to true human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: struggles pain difficulties problems overcome overcoming experience mistakes failures learn by doing

A man used to vissicitudes is not easily dejected.
Samuel Johnson Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: problems obstacles difficulties challenges mood attitude emotion depression sadness experience

The young man of native ability, (with) the will to work and good personality will, in the long run, get the equivalent of a college education in the tasks he will set for himself. If he has ability and determination, he will find ways to learn and to get ahead.
Edward G. Seubert The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability determination work personality character education goal self-improvement learning experience success

It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before--human experience--is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.
Ray Lyman Wilbur Light from Many Lamps
Categories: mistakes observation wisdom learning living life sorrow experience history past errors growth change success happiness

Every day I learn more than I teach,

Virginia Church Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: education experience growth aging attitude self-improvement growth