Experience Quotes

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
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
Unknown - the difficulties we experience always illuminate...
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
Dietrich bonhoeffe - time lost is time when we have not lived a full...
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Walt Whitman
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.
Oscar Homolka
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Javan
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
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
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
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
Michael Brian Schiffe
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Watley
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??
Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean - Jacques Rousseau
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
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
Manly P. Hall
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
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
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Sir Arnold Bax
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylo
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