Experience Quotes

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
Bruce lee - art requires imagination. it requires creativity....
Josh billings - there is nothing so easy to learn as experience...
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
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
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
Dominique Bouhours
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
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.
Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.
Max Frisch
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylo
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
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
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
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
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John R. Mille
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.
Erasmus
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
Experience becomes possible because of language.
Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.
Marquis de Sade