Experience Quotes

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.
Sybil Marshall
Judith stern - experience: a comb life gives you after you lose...
George washington - we ought not to look back unless it is to derive...
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
Joseph Farrell
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David Thoreau
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
David Weatherford
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
William Orville Douglas
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
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli
Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
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
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.
Immanuel Kant
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.
William Shakespeare
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
John Cage
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Lawrence Peter Berra
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
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.
John Guerrero
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
Constantine Peter Cavafy
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.
Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)