Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Experience is the schoolmaster of fools.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Experience is a great teacher.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Experience is a good teacher.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

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

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

You learn from everything.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

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

I'm not a prophet. I'm not a teacher. I have no degrees. My degree is from the University of Life.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.