Book I, line 61. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays, Vol. III, Ch. 13 (tr. Charles Cotton).
Variant translation: Experience, after many trials, perfected the art, example showing the way.
Astronomica
Per varios usus artem experientia fecit, Exemplo monstrante viam.
'Y Cymro' (Welsh weekly newspaper), 23/07/1969
As quoted in Free Verse. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 2nd ed (1975)
General sources
Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind
“By far the best proof is experience.”
“Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.”
Word Play (1974)
Context: Thinking is language spoken to oneself. Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.
“Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America”
Tactics and Strategy of the Latin American Revolution (1962)
Context: Cuba, for example, is a vanguard outpost, an outpost which overlooks the extremely broad stretches of the economically distorted world of Latin America. Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America.
“Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.”
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.
François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17
