Experience Quotes
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.Author Unknown
You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.Constantine Peter Cavafy
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.American
I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.Andre Bernard Buruch
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.Kahlil Gibran
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.David T. Wolf
What a time experiences as evil, is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good - - The atavism of a more ancient ideal.Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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.
Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.Napolean Hill
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
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.Anton Chekhov
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.George Bernard Shaw
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
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
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
Experience... is simply the name we give our mistakes.Oscar Wilde
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.William E. Channing
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.Edwin P. Whipple
He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.Ling Po, (Chinese, 701 - 762)
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
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
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
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.Benjamin Lee Whorf
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world; through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
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
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
