Experience Quotes

Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Michael Brian Schiffe

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

Cervantes

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

For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

Derwood Finche

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

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

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

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

Character cannot 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

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

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

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

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

C. S. Lewis, Chicken Soup for the Soul (book)

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick

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

Isodore Duncan

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

James Beard, O Magazine, November 2003

All truly wise thoughts have been thought 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 von Goethe

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Max Frisch

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

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

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

The way to develop self - Confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Soren Kierkegaard

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches