Experience Quotes
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.Eric Hoffe
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.William E. Channing
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.Cornelius Tacitus
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
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
Experience becomes possible because of language.Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
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.
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice Jones
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.David Sarnoff
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
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
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
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
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of Chesterfield
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.Roosevelt, Eleano
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.Don Marquis
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
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
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.Leonard Hodgson
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.Sacha Guitry
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
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
