Experience Quotes

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

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

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

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

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

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

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

Randolph Bourne

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do??

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Cicero

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)

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

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

Franklin P. Jones

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well - Dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

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

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

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

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

David T. Wolf

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

Willie Sutton

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Anonymous

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.

Joseph Farrell

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

Author Unknown

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.

Harold Green

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

Sacha Guitry

What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.

Sigmund Freud

Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.

Terry Josephson

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

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

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

Charles Simic

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries