Experience Quotes

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

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Miguel De Cervantes

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Rosevelt

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.

Japanese Prove

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Lawrence Peter Berra

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

William Shakespeare

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

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 on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean - Jacques Rousseau

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

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Anonymous

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffe

Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Desiderius Erasmus

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James