Experience Quotes
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.Eleanor Roosevelt
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
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
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.David Sarnoff
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
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.Judith Stern
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
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.Lillian Smith
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice Jones
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.William E. Channing
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.Isadora Duncan
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, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.American
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Roosevelt, Eleano
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.F. P. Jones
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.Fred Brooks
