Experience Quotes

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.

George Washington

Character cannot 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

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

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

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

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

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.

Immanuel Kant

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

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

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffe

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.

Eleanor Rosevelt

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

Charles Peguy

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.

David Weatherford

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

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 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

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William E. Channing

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

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

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

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis