Experience Quotes
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
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.Sigmund Freud
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.Peter De Vries
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
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
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
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
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.Don Marquis
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
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
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
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.Harold Taylo
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
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
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.John Claypool
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.John R. Mille
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
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
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
