Experience Quotes

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
Swami sivanada - if you think about disaster, you will get it....
I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Catherine drinker bowen - writing, i think, is not apart from living....
Ludwig van beethoven - recommend virtue to your children it alone, not...
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.
Charles Peguy
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
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.
Author Unknown
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
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
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
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
Albert Einstein
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.
Greek Prove
Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.
Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
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
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Religion is a defense against the experience of God.
Carl Jung
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
Leonard Hodgson
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.
George Washington
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
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
Cervantes
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
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.
Napolean Hill
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
Derwood Finche
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
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
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