Experience Quotes

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

Walt Whitman

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.

Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician

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

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Edwin P. Whipple

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

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

One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

Gene Brown

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

Belgian Prove

Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.

Fred Brooks

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

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William Orville Douglas

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Kahlil Gibran

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Vernon Law

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

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

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

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

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Henry Havelock Ellis

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

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them.

Edward R. Murrow, television broadcast, December 31, 1955

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

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

William Shakespeare

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

Unknown

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John R. Mille

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim