Mark Van Doren Quotes

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

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

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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

There are some things you only learn through experience.

Experience is a great teacher.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Experience can be a great teacher.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Experience is the best teacher. But in our day and time, what we need is wisdom, because wisdom overcomes experience, because experience is wisdom, but there's a level of wisdom that overcomes the experience, and that's the experience that's already lived by others. I'm not trying to repeat the histories. I already learned from what they did.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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 trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

He that travels much knows much.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.