Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

More quotations tagged with “experience”

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

—James Boswell

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

—James A. Froude

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

—Franklin P. Jones

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

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

—Barry LePatner

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