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Experience

«There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.»
Author: Archibald MacLeish (Critic, Poet) | About: Experience, Learning | Keywords: painful
«There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.»
«The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.»
«The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.»
«There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.»
«One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune»
«Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them»
«Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle»
«Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.»
«There's no substitute for experience»
Author: Proverb | About: Experience | Keywords: substitute