Experience Quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
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
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
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.F. P. Jones
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice Jones
Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??Friedrich Nietzsche
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
By far the best proof is experience.Sir Francis Bacon
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
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.Benjamin Disraeli
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
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.Cicero
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.Vernon Law
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
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
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.Eleanor Rosevelt
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
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.Cornelius Tacitus
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.Erasmus
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley
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
Deep experience is never peaceful.Henry James
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.Benjamin Disraeli
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.Johnson
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.Sigmund Freud
