Experience Quotes

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C. S. Lewis
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Law
Daniel j. boorstin - the american experience stirred mankind from...
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
Benjamin disraeli - a man who loses his money, gains, at the least,...
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
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
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
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
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
Experience becomes possible because of language.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
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
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
Bruce Kempe
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
William Gibson
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
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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
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
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.
Loren Klein
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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.
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.
John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
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
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isodore Duncan
ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.
Harold Ruopp
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.
John Guerrero
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Mille
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 most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot