“Happy are they that hear their detractions and can put them to mending.”
William Shakespeare
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Experience Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EXPERIENCE
Experience Quotes
Read 200 of the best experience quotes about learning from life, mistakes, wisdom and growth, from Shakespeare, Keats, Montaigne, Emerson and more.
“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.”
William Shakespeare
Moving OnRegret
“Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?”
William Shakespeare
AgingFunny
“There is a history in all men's lives, figuring the nature of the times deceased.”
William Shakespeare
HistoryPatterns
“Set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.”
Francis Bacon
Role ModelsLearning
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it.”
Michel de Montaigne
No RegretsAcceptance
“We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
AdviceWisdom
“Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.”
Samuel Johnson
LifeEndurance
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
Lord Chesterfield
AdviceHuman Nature
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.”
Jonathan Swift
AgingWisdom
“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.”
Alexander Pope
MistakesGrowth
“Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own.”
Benjamin Franklin
Learning From OthersWisdom
“Every wall is a door.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ObstaclesOpportunity
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trying New ThingsGrowth
“Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
Henry David Thoreau
ChangeGenerations
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
Mark Twain
WorryFunny
“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”
Oscar Wilde
YouthWitty
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
Thomas Carlyle
ObstaclesStrength
“For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.”
William Wordsworth
MaturityPerspective
“Much have I seen and known; cities of men and manners, climates, councils, governments.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
TravelLife Experience
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Self-AwarenessHumility
“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
Seneca
TimeLiving Well
“Elderly men have often been taken in, and often made mistakes; they are sure about nothing and under-do everything.”
Aristotle
AgingCaution
“Young men think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it.”
Aristotle
YouthOverconfidence
“Old age and the passage of time teach all things.”
Sophocles
TimeWisdom