Experience Quotes
There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.John Dewey
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - - And stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again - - And that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.Albert Camus
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
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
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
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
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
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.Constantine Peter Cavafy
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.Cervantes
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
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
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
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
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
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
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.William Shakespeare
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.John Claypool
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
