Experience Quotes
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.Manly P. Hall
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePatne
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, Sonnet de Regrets
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.Henry Ford
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.Judith Stern
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.Cornelius Tacitus
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.Constantine Peter Cavafy
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.Benjamin Franklin
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.Paul Rudnick
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.
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley
ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.Harold Ruopp
I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.Martha Washington
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
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
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.Eric Hoffe
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
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.Greek Prove
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
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
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.Max Frisch
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice Jones
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
Most maxim - Mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice James
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
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.
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
