Experience Quotes

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

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

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

Eric Hoffe

As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.

Arnold Patent

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

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

Experience becomes possible because of language.

Noam Chomsky, Ruth Anshen, Biography of an Idea (Mt. Kisco, NY: Moyer Bell Limited, 1986), pg. 196

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Henry Mille

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

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Isodore Duncan

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

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

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

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice Jones

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

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.

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William E. Channing

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein