Experience Quotes

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple

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

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

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Anais Nin

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.

George Washington

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Unknown

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

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

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

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

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

William Orville Douglas

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

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