Experience Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.Thomas Mann
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.Constantine Peter Cavafy
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
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
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
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
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
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
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.Japanese Prove
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
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
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
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
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
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
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
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
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
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
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
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.Hosea Ballou
