Been there, done that. Here are some proverbs and quotes about experience.
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'Every worm has his weak spot', as my father used to say, though I am sure it was not from personal experience.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Bilbo
A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice.
A vacation is like love: anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.Evan Esar
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Ethical values are derived from human need and interest as tested by experience.American Humanist Association
Source: Humanism and Its Aspirations
Experience is more important than theory.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
Experience is the best teacher.The best way to learn a job is to do a job.
Experience is the father of wisdom.Through experience you will gain better judgement.
Experience is the mother of knowledge.
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
Happiness is not something you experience, it's something you remember.Oscar Levant
I am having an out-of-memory experience.Minkukel
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.P.J. O'Rourke
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.Mao Tse-Tung
It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet.Ernest Hemingway
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.Alexander Pope
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.Alfred Sheinwold
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.Mark Twain
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Auguste Rodin
Old crows are hard to catch.
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.Herbert Read
Proverbs are the children of experience.
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience
The only source of knowledge is experience.Albert Einstein
The problem with life experience is that it can prevent you from experiencing life.Minkukel
There's no substitute for experience.
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.Bill Bryson
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.(unknown author)
We start as fools and become wise through experience.
You do not teach the paths of the forest to an old gorilla.
