Experience Quotes

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

Ashley Montagu

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

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

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.

Constantine Peter Cavafy

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus

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

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

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

Alice Jones

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

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963

ife does not require us to make good it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Harold Ruopp

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts 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 Wolfgang von Goethe

Every time we remember to say thank you, we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Sacha Guitry

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

Cicero

The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.

Manly P. Hall

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johann Huizinga

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Robert

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Randolph Bourne

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

Real love is a permanently self - Enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck, O Magazine, February 2004

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Character cannot 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

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

James Russell Lowell

Ask the experienced rather than the learned.

Arab Prove

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

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

Unknown

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Erasmus