Thomas Hardy Quotes

If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

There's nothing that can teach you more than experience.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Experience is a safe guide.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Common sense comes from experience, and kids need to fail as well as succeed in order to learn it. It's difficult to develop common sense when you spend a lot of time in your room where nothing much happens.

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

He that travels much knows much.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

You can read and read, but nothing eclipses experience.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I learn from experience.

Travel teaches as much as books.

I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.