Post #1235

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and who manages to avoid them.
—Werner Heisenberg

Post #1227

Practice is the best of all instructors.

—Publilius Syrus

Post #1215

Nothing is rougher than a low bred man when he has risen to a height.
—Claudian

Post #1148

I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
—Mark Twain

Post #1126

Experience is the comb that Nature gives us after we are bald.
—Belgian Proverb

Post #1081

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
—Abigail Van Buren

Post #996

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exhanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau

Post #958

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err, and err, and err again. But less, and less, and less.
—Piet Hein

Post #854

The more sand that has escaped the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
—Jean-Paul Sartre

Post #797

One learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
—Harold Coffin

Post #745

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

Post #707

A capital ship for an ocean trip
Was the Walloping Window Blind -
No gale that blew dimayed her crew
Or troubled the Captain's mind.
The man at the wheel was taught to feel
Contempt for the wildest blow.
And it often appeared, when the weather had cleared,
That he'd been in his bunk below.
—Charles Edward Carryl

Post #702

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it.
—John Keats

Post #686

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought on the market.
—Arthur Hugh Clough

Post #681

Man needs to suffer.  When he does not have real griefs he creates them.  Griefs purify and prepare him.
—José Julián Martí Pérez

Post #614

A whaleship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
—Herman Melville

Post #311

Experience teaches only the teachable.
—Aldus Huxley

Post #90

An old dog does not bark for nothing.

—"Outlandish Proverbs" selected by Mr. George Herbert

Post #48

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
—Oscar Wilde