Experience Quotes
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
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.Bruce Lee
Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.Japanese Prove
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Rodin
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
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.Johann von Goethe
Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
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
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.Heinrich Heine
That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt.... but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience.Immanuel Kant
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.Harold Taylo
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.Unknown
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
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others history, men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.Aldous Huxley
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.Loren Klein
