Experience Quotes
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
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
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)
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
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.William Shakespeare
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
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
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.William Gibson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
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
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.Noam Chomsky
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
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.Erasmus
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Paul Rudnick
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
