Experience Quotes
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
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.A. M. Rosenthal
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.Johnson
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
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.
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePatne
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
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
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.American
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
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
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
