Experience Quotes
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
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
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Rodin
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.Denis Waitley
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, Sonnet de Regrets
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
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
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
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.E. e. cummings
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
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.F. P. Jones
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Rainer Maria Rilke
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.Henry James
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - - Hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.Joan Rivers
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.Thomas Mann
Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.Raymond Holliwell
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.John Guerrero
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.Gene Brown
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.Benjamin Franklin
