Quote of Oscar Wilde - Experience is the name everyone gives...

Biography - Oscar Wilde:

Irish playwright, novelist, essayist and poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1900
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermere's Fan

Note

Other version: "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

Internet Archive - Wilde - Lady Windermere's fan (en)

Translation

(French, German)

L'expérience est le nom que l'on donne à ses erreurs.

Oscar Wilde - L'Éventail de Lady Windermere

Erfahrung ist einfach nur der Name, den wir unseren Fehlern geben.

Oscar Wilde - Lady Windermeres Fächer

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Experience is the teacher of all things.

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Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.

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