Experience Quotes

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Sacha Guitry
Andre bernard buruch - i was the son of an immigrant. i experienced...
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
Boris pasternak - it is no longer possible for lyric poetry to...
Aldous huxley, unknown - words form the thread on which we string our...
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