Experience Quotes

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Unknown

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.

Andre Bernard Buruch

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Henry Mille

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Javan

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

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

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

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

American

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

Cervantes

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

Unknown

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

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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

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

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

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

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

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

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

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Anton Chekhov

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

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

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

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

Michael Brian Schiffe

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

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

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