Experience Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.Vernon Sanders Law
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.Confucius
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.Rabbi Harold Kushne
Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.Terry Josephson
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.Ludwig van Beethoven
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.Marquis de Sade
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.Dominique Bouhours
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
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
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.Helen Kelle
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of 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
Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.Rainer Maria Rilke
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.Johann Huizinga
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
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
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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.
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc., with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes.Abraham Harold Maslow
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
