Experience Quotes

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
Eric hoffe - the wise learn from the experience of others, and...
Bruce kempe - age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do...
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.
Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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
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
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William E. Channing
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
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
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
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.
Johnson
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley, unknown
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.
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
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.
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
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
Samuel Johnson
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Dominique Bouhours
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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
Charles Peguy
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
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??
Friedrich Nietzsche
Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
David Sarnoff
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Walt Whitman
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
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
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Prove
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylo
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson