Experience Quotes
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
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
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
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.John Dewey
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
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
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 is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.Benjamin Franklin
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.Javan
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.Friedrich Nietzsche
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.William Shakespeare
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
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
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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 my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.James Russell Lowell
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
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
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
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
