Keyword: Experience

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

Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from poor judgment.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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

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

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

Definitions Mistakes

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
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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Death Intelligence

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

Mistakes Murphy’s Laws Problems

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

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

Experience : The name men give to their mistakes.

Definitions Mistakes

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

Communication Education Murphy’s Laws

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

(1930 – ) American baseball player
Education Intelligence

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Mistakes Problems

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

Definitions

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


Education Learning

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

Intelligence Proverbs Wisdom

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
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 a good teacher, but the fees are very high.

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