The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
Believe him who speaks from experience. (Roman)
Better than being taught is to become experienced. (Japanese)
Experience bought with pain teaches. (Roman)
Experience is a long road. (Swedish)
Experience is the best teacher. (Roman)
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald. (Belgian)
Experience is the father of wisdom. (Belgian)
Experience is the mistress of fools. (English)
Experience is the teacher of fools. (Roman)
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. (Unknown)
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience. (Roman)
Let the doctor be old and the lawyer be young. (Burmese)
The best proof by far is experience. (English)
The tongue of experience holds the most truth. (Egyptian)
To one of little experience, there are many strange things. (Chinese)
We start as fools and become wise through experience. (African)
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