Experience Quotes
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.James A. Froude
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
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.Karl Kraus
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.David Weatherford
What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.Isadora Duncan
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.Leo Tolstoy
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.Jean - Jacques Rousseau
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.Javan
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.Alfred North Whitehead
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.Charles Simic
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.Michael Brian Schiffe
All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.Sir Philip Sidney
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
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
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.Harold Taylo
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.Anais Nin
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
Never argue with an idiot, because they will only bring you down to their level and beat you by experience.John Guerrero
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.William E. Channing
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
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
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.Don Marquis
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
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
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
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
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.Roosevelt, Eleano
