Experience Quotes
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.Arab Prove
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.Sir Arnold Bax
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
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
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
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
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
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
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.John Cage
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
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
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
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Eleanor Rosevelt
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.Russell R. McIntyre
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
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 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
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.Cicero
As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Joseph Farrell
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.Thomas Mann
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.Carl Jung
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
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.John Guerrero
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
