Experience Quotes

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
James a. froude - experience teaches slowly and at the cost of...
Noam chomsky, ruth anshen, biography of an idea (mt. kisco, ny: moyer bell limited, 1986), pg. 196 - experience becomes possible because of language....
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.
Derwood Finche
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
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
Derwood Finche
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
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
Ask the experienced rather than the learned.
Arab Prove
By far the best proof is experience.
Sir Francis Bacon
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
Benjamin Disraeli
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew or what they thought they knew was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown.
Daniel J. Boorstin
There is more than a verbal tie between the words common, community, and communication.... Try the experiment of communicating, with fullness and accuracy, some experience to another, especially if it be somewhat complicated, and you will find your own attitude toward your experience changing.
John Dewey
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.
Galileo Galilei, The Assaye
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
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
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
What experience and history teach is this - That nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.
Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
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
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
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
Cicero
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
Unknown
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
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak