Mark Twain Quotes About Experience

• Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Judgement

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  c.1897 Quoted in Albert Bigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935).

• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

• If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Inspiration, Learning

• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Science, Supposing That

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

• There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

  Mark Twain

  Experience, Wish, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.181, 谷月社

• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

• We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Wisdom Experience, Knowledge Experience

  Following the Equator ch. 11, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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