Experience
Mark Twain on Genius
“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” Mark Twain US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)
Albert Camus on Experience
“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 – 1960)
Barry LePatner on Experience
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” Barry LePatner
Georges Clemenceau on Experience
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” Georges Clemenceau
George Bernard Shaw on Experience
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” George Bernard Shaw
Douglas Adams on Experience
“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” Douglas Adams
Jake Roberts on Experience
“Every moment is an experience.” Jake Roberts
Elbert Hubbard on Experience
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.” Elbert Hubbard
Confucius on Wisdom
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Confucius
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” Josh Billings
Oscar Wilde on Experience
“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” Oscar Wilde
Eleanor Roosevelt on Character
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Isadora Duncan on Experience
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” Isadora Duncan