Experience Quotes

C. s. lewis, chicken soup for the soul (book) - experience: that most brutal of teachers. but you...
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
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
Max Frisch
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
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam Chomsky
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
Constantine Peter Cavafy
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.
Paul Rudnick
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
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Author Unknown
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
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
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
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
Loren Klein
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
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Mille
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.
George Washington
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
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.
Harold Green
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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