Experience Quotes
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
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
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice James
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
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
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.John Guerrero
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
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
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
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
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
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.A. M. Rosenthal
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
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.Carl Jung
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.Ghandi, 1931
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)
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
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
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.Andre Bernard Buruch
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
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
