Experience Quotes - Page 13
1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.
C.E. Murphy (2012). “Raven Calls”, p.32, Harlequin
I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster
Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
"De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”