Keyword: Experience

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Education Learning

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Sex

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Yogi-isms

Amateur: One who is always willing to give you the benefit of his inexperience

People

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

(1861 – 1950) American writer
Money Time

The only problem with learning by experience is that you get the test before the lesson.


Education Learning

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what man does with what happens to him.

(1894 – 1963) English writer
History Intelligence

Experience is what makes you pause briefly before going ahead and making the same mistake.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Mistakes Problems Situations Time

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

(1818 – 1885) humorist
Animals Intelligence Wisdom

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist
Education Learning

Experience: In the working world, something you can’t get unless you’ve already got it, in which case you probably don’t want any more of it.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
Definitions

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Mistakes Problems

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Mistakes Problems

Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get if you don’t.

(1919 – ) American folk singer
Education

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Intelligence Wisdom

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

Definitions

Experience: A form of knowledge acquired only two ways: by doing and being done.

Definitions

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

Beliefs Life Proverbs

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

Definitions Mistakes