Keyword: Experience (Page 2)

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

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

Definitions Mistakes

This ain't my first rodeo.

Miscellaneous

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

Definitions

We learn from experience that men never learn from experience.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Education Learning

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

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

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

(1861 – 1950) American writer
Money Time

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist
Mistakes Problems

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

Adolescence is the best substitute ever invented for experience.

Age

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

Beliefs Life Proverbs

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

Definitions

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

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

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

(1878 – 1937) humorist, journalist & author
People

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

Definitions

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

(1919 – ) American folk singer
Education

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


Education Learning

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

People

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

Definitions Mistakes

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws