Experience Quotes
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.Cervantes
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.Shelley Winters
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
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
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.Franklin P. Jones
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
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
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
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
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.Carl Rogers
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.Sybil Marshall
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
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.William Gibson
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
It was an interesting experience being metropolitan editor of the Times, in precisely the same way as being simmered in a saucepan for a few years is terribly interesting.A. M. Rosenthal
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
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
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.Johann von Goethe
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
