Experience Quotes

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

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William Orville Douglas

Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Anna Jameson