Experience Quotes
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
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Rainer Maria Rilke
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
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
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
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
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
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of Chesterfield
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
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
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
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
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
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
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
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
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
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
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.William Gibson
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
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
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
