Experience Quotes
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
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
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
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
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Paul Rudnick
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
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
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
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
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.Harold Taylo
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
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
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
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
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
