Experience Quotes
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.William E. Channing
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.Carl Rogers
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.Catherine Drinker Bowen
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.Isadora Duncan
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Rainer Maria Rilke
