“Whoever neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
Euripides
YouthLearning
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.
“I grow old ever learning many things.”
Solon
Lifelong LearningAging
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
Thales
Self-KnowledgeWisdom
“It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well.”
Epicurus
Living WellAging
“The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.”
Horace
TimeLoss
“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult.”
Hippocrates
MasteryLife
“The life so short, the craft so long to learn.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
MasteryTime
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
Miguel de Cervantes
PatienceWisdom
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
William Blake
MistakesWisdom
“If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.”
William Blake
PersistenceMistakes
“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
William Blake
LimitsLearning
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
SufferingDepth
“Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.”
The Bible (Job 32:7)
AgeWisdom
“Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.”
The Bible (Job 32:9)
HumilityWisdom
“I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened.”
The Bible (Proverbs 4:11-12)
GuidanceWisdom
“And when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.”
The Bible (Luke 22:32)
Helping OthersGrowth
“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 1:4)
CompassionShared Experience
“Be not deceived; whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”
The Bible (Galatians 6:7)
ConsequencesActions
“O God, thou hast taught me from my youth.”
The Bible (Psalm 71:17)
Lifelong LearningFaith
“But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him.”
The Bible (1 Kings 12:8)
AdviceMistakes
“When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.”
The Bible (Proverbs 11:2)
HumilityWisdom
“Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 4:13)
WisdomHumility
“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally.”
The Bible (James 1:5)
WisdomFaith
“In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.”
Aesop
LessonsCaution
“Experience teaches.”
Traditional Latin Proverb
ExperienceWisdom