Experience Quotes
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
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
All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts 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 Wolfgang von Goethe
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.Franklin P. Jones
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.Socrates
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.Dr. Thomas Dooley
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.Elizabeth Hardwick
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Paul Rudnick
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
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
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
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.William Gibson
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 is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.Cervantes
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
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
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.Walt Whitman
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue.Henry James
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.Daniel J. Boorstin
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.Don Marquis
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
