Experience Quotes

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.

Aldous Huxley, unknown

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.

Anonymous

Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.

Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks

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

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

E. e. cummings

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson

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

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them, on the whole, are trash.

Sigmund Freud

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.

Unknown

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted - Not my hand held by an old smoothie.

William Safire

What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.

Javan

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

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

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

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.

Henry Mille

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Lawrence Peter Berra

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

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

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

I have found a desire within myself that no experience in this world can satisfy; the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

C. S. Lewis

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

Short sentences drawn from long experiences.

Cervantes

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

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell