Experience Quotes
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
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
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
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.Desiderius Erasmus
The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.Desiderius Erasmus
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.Harold Green
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.Robert A. Heinlein
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Through faith man experiences the meaning of the world through action he is to give to it meaning.Leo Braeck
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards.Anonymous
Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!Derwood Finche
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.Aldous Huxley, "Texts and Pretexts", 1932
I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.Sybil Marshall
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
Cyberspace A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation.William Gibson
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.Samuel Johnson
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.Unknown
Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.Henry Havelock Ellis
I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.William Shakespeare
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - And stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove - Lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove - Lid again - And that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.Mark Twain
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
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
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
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.Aldous Huxley
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.Willie Sutton
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
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.Japanese Prove
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.Anonymous
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Judgment is forced upon us by experience.Johnson
I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.Sigmund Freud
Experience consists of experiencing that which one does not wish to experience.Quoted by Freud in "Jokes and Their Relation To The Unconscience? ".
