Experience Quotes

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
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
Albert einstein - the most beautiful thing we can experience is the...
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
American - experience without learning is better than...
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
Gene Brown
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
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
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
Shakti Gawain
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
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.
Leo Braeck
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David Thoreau
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
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
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
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.
Desiderius Erasmus
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
Harold Taylo
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Barry LePatne
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
Abraham Harold Maslow
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.
Edwin P. Whipple