Experience Quotes
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.Bruce Lee
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
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
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
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
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
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
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
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
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.Shelley Winters
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.Dr. Thomas Dooley
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.Joseph Roux
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.Raymond Holliwell
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.Unknown
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
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 what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
