Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

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


Education is what you get from reading the small print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

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

Barney: I think of you as experienced. In an emergency, you would be the first one that I’d call.
Fish: You should call me first. I need time to put my teeth in.

(1921 – ) American actor

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

Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.

Experience is a good teacher, but the fees are very high.

(1860 – 1954) English author, Anglican priest, professor & dean

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

Experience: What you get from being inexperienced.

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

Experience: The name an older man gives to his mistakes.

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

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

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

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

(1894 – 1963) English writer

I'm an experienced woman. I've been around… Well, all right, I might not've been around, but I've been… nearby.

(1936 – 2017) American actress

Experience: Something you don’t get until just after you needed it.

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

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