Experience Quotes

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

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

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Swami Sivanada

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

William Shakespeare

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

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

E. e. cummings

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Harold Green

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

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

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Unknown

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

All truly wise thoughts have been thought 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 von Goethe

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage