Experience
All is but lip—wisdom that wants experience.
——Philip Sidney， British statesman
凡是没有实际经验的，都只是口头智慧。
——英国政治家P.西德尼
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first， the lesson afterwards.
——Law Vernon， British writer
经验是一位先行测试然后才授课严厉的教师。
——英国作家L.弗农
Experience is not interesting till it begins to repeat itself， in fact， till it does that， it hardly is experience.
——Elizabeth Bowen， British novelist
经验直到自我重复时才变得有意义，事实上，直到那时才算得上经验。
——英国小说家E.鲍恩
Experience is not what happens to a man， it is what a man does with what happens to him.
——Aldous Leonard Huxley， American writer
经验不会从天而降，经验只有通过实践才能获得。
——美国作家A. L.赫胥黎
Experience is the child of thought， and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
——Benjamin Disraeli， British statesman
经验是思想之子，思想是行动之子，了解他人不可以书本为据。
——英国政治家B.迪斯雷利
Experience is the name give their mistakes.
——Oscar Wilde， British playwright and poet
经验是每个人为其错误寻找的代名词。
——英国剧作家、诗人O.王尔德
Experience is what you get when you donˊt get what you want.
——Dan Stanfort， American businessman
经验是当你没得到想得到之物时所得到的东西。
——美国实业家D.斯坦福
Experience keeps a dear school， yet fools will learn in no other.
——Benjamin Franklin， American president
经验始终是收费高的学校，然而，笨汉非进此学校不可。
——美国总统B.富兰克林
Experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
——Bendict de Spinoza， Dutch philosopher
经验给我们太多的教训，告诉我们人类最难管制的东西，莫过于自己的舌头。
——荷兰哲学家B.斯宾诺沙
Experience never misleads； what you are missed by is only your judgment， and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.
——Leonardo Da Vinci， Italian painter
经验永远不会对你做错误的引导；把你引导错的只是你自己的判断，而你的判断之所以对你
发生误导的作用，乃是由于它根据那种并非借着实验而产生的经验来预料的结果。
——意大利画家达·芬奇
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
——Bertrand Russell， British philosopher
有经验而无学问胜于有学问而无经验。
——英国哲学家B.罗素
I have but one lamp wait， which my feet are guided， and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
——Patrick Henry， American statesman
我只拿一盏灯来指引我的脚步，而那盏灯就是经验。对于未来，我只能以过去来判断。
——美国政治家P.亨利
Mistakes are an essential part of education.
——Bertrand Russell， British philosopher
从错误中吸取教训是教育极为重要的一部分。
——英国哲学家B.罗素
Neither believe nor reject anything， because any other person has rejected or believed it. Heaven has given you a mind for judging truth and error. Use it.
——Thomas Jefferson， American president
不要因为别的人相信或否定了什么东西，你也就去相信它或否定它。上帝赠予你一个用来判
断真理和谬误的头脑。那你就去运用它吧！
——美国总统T.杰斐逊
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
——James Russell Lowell， British poet and critic
一次痛苦的经验抵得上千百次的告诫。
——英国诗人、批评家J. R.洛威尔
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
——Samuel Smiles， British writer
实用的知识只有通过亲身体验才能学到。
——英国作家S.斯迈尔斯
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
——Miguel de Cervantes， Spanish writer
谚语是从长期经验中获得的短句。
——西班牙作家M.塞万提斯
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have slight experience， and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
——Alfred North Whitehead， British philosopher and mathematician
世界的悲剧就在于有想象力的人又缺乏经验，而有经验的人又缺乏想象力。
——英国哲学家、数学家A. N.怀特海
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
——George Santayana， Spain-born American philosopher and poet
教育之艰苦在于从意念中获得经验。
——西班牙裔美国哲学家、诗人G.桑塔亚那
To make good use of life，one should have in youth the experience of advanced years，and in old age the vigor of youth.
——Stanislars I， Polish king
青年而有老年之经验，老年而有青年之朝气，就能使人生发挥更大的作用。
——波兰国王斯坦尼劳斯一世
To most men， experience is like the stern light of a ship， which illuminates only the track it has passed.
——Samuel Tylor Coleridge， British poet
对于大多数人，经验像是一艘船上的尾灯，只照亮船驶过的航道。
——英国诗人S.T.柯勒津治
Too much experience is a dangerous thing.
——Oscar Wilde， British dramatist
经验过多反而危险。
——英国剧作家O.王尔德
We know nothing of what will happen in future， but by the analogy of past experience.
——Abraham Lincoln，American president
除了凭着对过去的经验加以类推之外，我们对今后的事一无所知。
——美国总统A.林肯