Experience Quotes

John claypool - we do not first get all the answers and then live...
Bill watterson, calvin & hobbes - talking with you is sort of the conversational...
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
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.
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
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
Short sentences drawn from long experiences.
Cervantes
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Sivanada
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
Barbara DeAngelis
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety - Nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson
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
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Belgian Prove
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
Javan
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann
Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
Russell R. McIntyre
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
Samuel Johnson
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy
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
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
Experience is a comb that is given to you, when you have already lost you hair.
Giorgos Zambetas, Greek musician
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
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
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
Good judgement is the result of experience... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
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
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Unknown
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
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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