English Explanatory Dictionary

experience is the best teacher

English dictionary entry

Meanings

proverb

Lessons learned from experience are the most lasting.

Word forms

experience is the best teacher

Etymology

Calque of Latin ūsus magister est optimus, from Prō Rabīriō Postumō by Cicerō about Gāius Rabīrius Postumus.

Related words

experience is the mother of wisdom practice makes perfect school of hard knocks Ut est rērum omnium magister ūsus

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