אֵין חָכָם כְּבַעַל נִסָּיוֹן

ביטוי (אנגלית)

There is none so wise as the experienced man

הגדרה (אנגלית)

The best wisdom belongs to a person who has gained knowledge through practical, real-life experience. The wisdom of one who has experience is preferable.

("To save the oppressed, but only after one who has already sat first in judgment, and there is none so wise as the experienced man" - Chatam Sofer, Tractate Gittin 55b; also: "This wanderer, it's not that he is wise, rather he is experienced. So he testifies about himself" - Sholem Aleichem, Crossing the Red Sea, p. 251; also: "When they heard this, they sighed deeply and said, there is none so wise as the experienced man" - Agnon, These and Those, The Story of the Emissary from the Holy Land, 321)