Experience Quotes
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice James
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.Isadora Duncan
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
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
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.John Dewey
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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.
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
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
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.Charles Buxton
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.Douglas Adams
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.Max Frisch
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
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.Harold Ruopp
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
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
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
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
