Experience Quotes

Edwin p. whipple - knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in...
Joachim du bellay, sonnet de regrets - happy the man who, like ulysses, has made a fine...
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
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.
Joseph Farrell
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
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.
Eric Hoffe
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Lawrence Peter Berra
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
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
Willie Sutton
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.
Japanese Prove
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
Leonard Hodgson
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
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
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.
John Dewey
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.
Unknown
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Experience becomes possible because of language.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
William Orville Douglas
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
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
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
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
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: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Author Unknown