Experience Quotes
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.Unknown
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Paul Rudnick
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
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
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
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
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
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.Author Unknown
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
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
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.Ralph Waldo Emerson
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
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
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
