Experience Quotes

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

William Shakespeare

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Denis Watley

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Loren Klein

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Walt Whitman

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

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

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Sigmund Freud

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Derwood Finche

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beeche

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatne

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Ghandi, 1931

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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 down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Mark Twain

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

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

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus