Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

I learned from my past.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

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

You learn from everything.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

All experience is good experience.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Everything is an experience. You learn something different from everything you do.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

There are some things you only learn through experience.