Experience Quotes
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.Arab Prove
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.Author Unknown
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
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
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.Harold Ruopp
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
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
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
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
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.Isadora Duncan
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
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.
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.Max Frisch
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
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
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
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
