Experience Quotes

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Kahlil Gibran

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Joan Rivers

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.

Arnold Patent

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

Greek Prove

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.

Japanese Prove

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechne

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Law

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johann Huizinga