Experience Quotes

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Denis Watley

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Belgian Prove

Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Vernon Law

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

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.

Henry James

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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

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.

Roosevelt, Eleano

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Sir Arnold Bax

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

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 down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

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

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

Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.

Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Greek Prove

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

Derwood Finche

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

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

Josh Billings

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

Vernon Law

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

Albert Einstein

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

Willie Sutton

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf