Experience Quotes

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

Peter De Vries

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.

Daniel J. Boorstin

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 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

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

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

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

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Terry Josephson

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

Arab Prove

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Anna Jameson

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

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

Leo Braeck

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Franklin P. Adams

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

Gene Brown

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Sigmund Freud

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

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

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.

Derwood Finche

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Harry S Truman

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.

Dominique Bouhours

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.

Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

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

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

Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.

William Gibson

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

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

Samuel Smiles

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven