Experience Quotes
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lessons afterwards.Vernon Law
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.Alice James
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 is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse.Derwood Finche
It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.Charles Peguy
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.Henry Mille
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.Saint Teresa Of Avila
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
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes.John Stuart Mill
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
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae Brown
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
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 yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.Earl of Chesterfield
The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.Eric Hoffe
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 lesson afterward.Unknown
For it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.Alexander Hamilton
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart.Henry Ward Beeche
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.Friedrich Nietzsche
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.Franklin P. Adams
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
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
Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.Harold Taylo
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
Experience is not what happens to a man it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.Aldous Huxley
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.Albert Einstein
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.Belgian Prove
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.Abraham Lincoln
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.Unknown
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
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.Randolph Bourne
