Experience Quotes
I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.C. S. Lewis
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
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
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.Johnson
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
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
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.Hosea Ballou
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.Abraham Harold Maslow
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.Bruce Kempe
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.Terry Josephson
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
