"Experience is said to be the best teacher. Genuine experience is indeed superior to book knowledge. But habits and customs gird men and women as with iron bands, and they are generally justified by experience, according to the common understanding of the term. Very many have abused precious experience. They have clung to their injurious habits, which are decidedly enfeebling to physical, mental, and moral health; and when you seek to instruct them, they sanction their course by referring to their experience. But true experience is in harmony with natural law and science. 3T 71.1"
"There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death."
Both passages warn against relying solely on personal experience or what seems right, as it can be misleading. Proverbs warns that a way that seems right can lead to death, while EGW cautions against justifying harmful habits based on 'experience.'