Experience Quotes
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted - Not my hand held by an old smoothie.William Safire
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.Bruce Kempe
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
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.Peter De Vries
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.Author Unknown
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.F. P. Jones
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.Andre Bernard Buruch
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.John Guerrero
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
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
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.David Sarnoff
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.Terry Josephson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
