Experience Quotes

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
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
Denis waitley - happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned,...
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Alice james - one has a greater sense of intellectual...
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
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
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
Cervantes
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
Shakti Gawain
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.
Cornelius Tacitus
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
Johnson
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Prove
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Unknown
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice Jones
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted - Not my hand held by an old smoothie.
William Safire
All truly wise thoughts have been thought 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 von Goethe
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
John Claypool
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
Sigmund Freud
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.
William Gibson
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
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
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isodore Duncan
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.
Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.
Socrates
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
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
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.
Arnold Patent