Experience Quotes
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
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
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
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
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.Aldous Huxley, unknown
As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.Arnold Patent
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.Denis Watley
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955
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. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
The process of preparing programs for a digital computer is especially attractive, not only because it can be economically and scientifically rewarding, but also because it can be an aesthetic experience much like composing poetry or music.Donald E. Knuth
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
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.Eleanor Roosevelt
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
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
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
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.Bruce Kempe
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
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
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.Unknown
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 the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
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
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.Frederick Buechne
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.Carl Rogers
The only reward for love is the experience of loving.John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
