Experience Quotes
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.John Dewey
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
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
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
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.Javan
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
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
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 wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
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
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
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.William Jennings Bryan
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.Peter De Vries
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
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.Arab Prove
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
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
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
