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I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

T. S. Eliot

Learn the lesson of your own pain—learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul—in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

Mary Augusta Ward

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon Romance and Reality (1831)

I shall the effect of this good lesson keep,
As watchman to my heart.

William Shakespeare

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Roger Ascham

As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may be), there is a degree of vague ill-will towards what is called Thinking.

Vernon Lee

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and forever when I move.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

James Anthony Froude

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

James Anthony Froude

Who heeds not experience, trust him not.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Experience, n. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience seems to be like the shining of a bright lantern. It suddenly makes clear in the mind what was already there perhaps, but dim.

Walter de la Mare Come Hither (1923)

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac (1757)

A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To show the world what long experience gains,
Requires not courage, though it calls for pains;
But at life's outset to inform mankind
Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

George Crabbe

Only so much do I know, as I have lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience join'd with common sense,
To mortals is a providence.

Matthew Green

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