Experience Quotes

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

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

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.

John Guerrero

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Terry Josephson

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

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

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

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

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

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

Anonymous

ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

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

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

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

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.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

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

Japanese Prove

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Napolean Hill

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

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

Eleanor Roosevelt

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Boris Pasternak

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

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Harold Green

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Belgian Prove

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

Leo Braeck

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

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