experience is the best teacher

English

Etymology

A calque translation of Latin usus magister est optimus Cicero, Oration for Rabirius.

Proverb

experience is the best teacher

Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.

Translations

lessons learned from experience are the most lasting

Finnish: käytäntö on paras opettaja; Siperia opettaa
Jamaican Creole: young bud nuh know storm
Spanish: la experiencia es la madre de la ciencia

See also

school of hard knocks
w:Ut est rerum omnium magister usus
Experience is the mother of wisdom

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