Experience Quotes

There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction.

John Dewey

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Terry Josephson

There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

Paul Rudnick

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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

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

Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

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

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

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

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

Sin bravely... We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R. McIntyre

Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Kelle

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Sir Arnold Bax

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

Ghandi, 1931

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Rodin

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 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

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Denis Watley

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Alice James

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Alfred North Whitehead, Dialogues (1954)

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

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

Sigmund Freud

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

Loren Klein

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

Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.

Leo Braeck

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

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