Experience Quotes

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

Albert Einstein

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

Character cannot 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

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

Derwood Finche

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

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

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Aldous Huxley

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

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.

Eleanor Rosevelt

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

Greek Prove

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

Vernon Law

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell

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

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Javan

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - - And stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

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

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

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

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

Randolph Bourne

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Eric Hoffe

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice Jones

It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.

Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

Rita Mae Brown