Experience Quotes

Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

Voltaire

Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

Good judgement comes from experience and experience - well that comes from poor judgement.

Anonymous

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.

Mae West

Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

Christopher Morley

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

A burnt child dreads the fire.

English Proverb

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.

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

James Russell Lowell

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

Alfred de Musset

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let weakness learn meekness.

A. C. Swinburne

Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.

Eugène Delacroix

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

Henry David Thoreau

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!

I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.

William Stafford

Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The life of the law has not been logic it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Today is yesterday's pupil.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clémenceau

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

George Bernard Shaw

If you don't do anything stupid when you're young, you won't remember something funny when you're old.

Auliq-Ice

It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman, and so, forces retreat, humility, and awe, in the presence of spaces beyond our will.

You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experience unless you climb yourself.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

Dan Groat

Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Happiness can only be achieved through experiencing positive thoughts.

Memories make you sentimental, experiences make you smart.

You can overcome the things that are done to you, but you cannot escape the things that you have done. Here is the truth: It matters, what you do at war. It matters more than you ever want to know. Because countries, like people, have collective consciences and memories and souls, and the violence we deliver in the name of our nation is pooled like sickly tar at the bottom of who we are. The soldiers who don't die for us come home again. They bring with them the killers they became on our national behalf, and sit with their polluted memories and broken emotions in our homes and schools and temples. We may wish it were not so, but action amounts to identity. We become what we do.You can tell yourself all the stories you want, but you can't leave your actions over there. You can't build a wall and expect to live on the other side of memory. All of the poison seeps back into our soil.

In AA we don’t come to God through theology but through experience, mostly of the humbling and humiliating variety, often reluctantly, and sometimes even kicking and screaming. – p. 179

Ray A.

This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.

Michael David Lukas

‎"You are the author for your life and you only get one chance to leave a beautiful mark.

when you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.

fitri puji astutik

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding.

Yovanny Alfonso

Now, we see what we are shown. We have gotten used to being shown no matter what, within or beyond the limited range of human sight. This habituation to the monopoly of visualization-on-command strongly suggests that only those things that can in some way be visualized, recorded, and replayed at will are part of reality...The result is a strange mistrusts of our own eyes, a disposition to take as real only that which is mechanically displayed in a photograph, a statistical curve, or a table. Eyewitness testimony must be "substantiated" by records that have been acquired, and can be stored and then shown.

Strange how something good can come from something horrible.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

Sharon M. Draper

Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?

Elisabeth Elliot

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

Life was never intended to consist of a glut of luxury, be an easy course, or filled only with success. There are those games which we lose, those races in which we finish last, and those promotions which never come. Such experiences provide an opportunity for us to show our determination and to rise above disappointment.

Thomas S. Monson

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