Experience Quotes

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Max Frisch

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Friedrich Nietzsche

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

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 most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

Oscar Homolka

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

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

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

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

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

F. P. Jones

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.

George Washington

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

Sybil Marshall

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Lawrence Peter Berra

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

Cervantes

Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks