Experience Quotes
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
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
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
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePatne
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
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
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.William Shakespeare
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
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.Constantine Peter Cavafy
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.Franklin P. Jones
