Experience Quotes

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

I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.

Carl Jung

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Henry Ford

Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other.

Japanese Prove

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

Alice James

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Noam Chomsky

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Charles Simic

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William E. Channing

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

Religion is a defense against the experience of God.

Carl Jung

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

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

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

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylo

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

All is but lip - wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

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

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

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Derwood Finche

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

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

James Russell Lowell

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Watley

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

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

Idealism is what precedes experience cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad.

William Shakespeare

Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the tests first, the lessons afterwards.

Vernon Suanders Law, Chicken Soup for the Teenage soul: Tough Stuff

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

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity.

Alexander Hamilton

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim