Quote: When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. Author: Jimmy Connors 1952-, American Tennis Player
Quote: Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Author: Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519, Italian Inventor, Architect, Painter, Scientist, Sculptor
Quote: Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. Author: Rene Daumal 1908-1944, French Poet, Critic
Quote: I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad. Author: E. L. Doctorow 1931-, American Novelist
Quote: You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. Author: Bob Dylan 1941-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: The only source of knowledge is experience. Author: Albert Einstein 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist
Quote: But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. Author: Cleveland Amory American Animal Rights Activist
Quote: Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Author: Minna Antrim 1861-18?, American Epigrammist
Quote: My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing. Author: Arnold Bax 1883-1953, British Composer
Quote: Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life. Author: Gita Bellin
Quote: Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn. Author: Walter Benjamin 1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher
Quote: Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to. Author: Ezra Taft Benson 1899-1994, American Government Official and Religious Leader
Quote: Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Quote: Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding. Author: Louis D. Brandeis 1856-1941, American Judge
Quote: Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand. Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806-1861, British Poet
Quote: I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise. Author: Buddha 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism
Quote: Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. Author: Cadman
Quote: I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Author: Joseph Campbell American Scholar, Writer, Teacher
Quote: You can't create experience. You must undergo it. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. Author: Angela Carter 1940-1992, British Author
Quote: Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1894-1961, French Author
Quote: Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life. Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort 1741-1794, French Writer, Journalist, Playwright
Quote: Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. Author: William Ellery Channing 1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author
Quote: There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: The more experiments you make the better. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. Author: Gerald R. Ford 1913-, Thirty-eighth President of the USA
Quote: If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it. Author: Henry Ford 1863-1947, American Industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Company
Quote: Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers. Author: Brigham Young Fun
Quote: In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. Author: Harold S. Geneen 1910-, American Accountant, Industrialist, CEO, ITT
Quote: In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. Author: J. Paul Getty 1892-1976, American Oil Tycoon, Billionaire
Quote: No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. Author: Ellen Glasgow 1874-1945, American Novelist
Quote: One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are. Author: Gail Godwin
Quote: Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes. Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell
Quote: Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. Author: Heinrich Heine 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist
Quote: Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way. Author: Robert Heinlein 1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer
Quote: Experience is the extract of suffering. Author: Sir Arthur Helps 1813-1875, British Historian, Novelist, Essayist
Quote: In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. Author: Ernest Hemingway 1898-1961, American Writer
Quote: I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past. Author: Patrick Henry 1736-1799, American Orator, Patriot
Quote: I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. Author: Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993, American Actress, Dancer, Model
Quote: The fool knows after he's suffered. Author: Hesiod 8th century BC, Greek Poet
Quote: It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Experience teaches only the teachable. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: 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. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back. Author: Mick Jagger 1943-, British-born American-born American Musician, Singer
Quote: Deep experience is never peaceful. Author: Henry James 1843-1916, American Author
Quote: Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. Author: Henry James 1843-1916, American Author
Quote: The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience. Author: Henry James 1843-1916, American Author
Quote: If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser. Author: Johnson
Quote: Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Author: Franklin P. Jones
Quote: It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. Author: Franz Kafka 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer
Quote: Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. Author: John Keats 1795-1821, British Poet
Quote: Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
Quote: Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. Author: Vernon S. Law
Quote: Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. Author: Greg LeMond 1961-, American Cyclist, 3 Times Winner of the Tour de France
Quote: What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist
Quote: We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA
Quote: No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher
Quote: One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Author: Karl Marx 1818-1883, German Political Theorist, Social Philosopher
Quote: Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around. Author: Terry Mccormick
Quote: Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior. Author: Marshall Mcluhan 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist
Quote: The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. Author: Menander of Athens BC 342-291, Greek Dramatic Poet
Quote: There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. Author: John Stuart Mill 1806-1873, British Philosopher, Economist
Quote: A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience. Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. Author: Walter Pater 1839-1894, British Essayist, Critic
Quote: One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is. Author: Norman Vincent Peale 1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author
Quote: Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me. Author: American Proverb Sayings of American Origin
Quote: Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: A burnt child dreads the fire. Author: English Proverb Sayings of British Origin
Quote: I know by my own pot how the others boil. Author: French Proverb Sayings of French Origin
Quote: If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me. Author: Italian Proverb Sayings of Italian Origin
Quote: He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string. Author: Persian Proverb Sayings of Persian Origin
Quote: If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all. Author: Ronald Reagan 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor
Quote: Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Author: Auguste Rodin 1840-1917, French Sculptor
Quote: 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. Author: Carl Rogers 1902-1987, American Psychotherapist
Quote: Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. Author: Joseph Roux 1834-1905, French Priest, Writer
Quote: In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience! Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. Author: Sir Philip Sidney 1554-1586, British Author, Courtier
Quote: It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world Author: Bernie S. Siegel American Doctor, Author, Lecturer
Quote: We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. Author: Viola Spolin 1911-, American Theatrical Director, Producer
Quote: Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. Author: Judith Stern
Quote: The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. Author: R. S. Storrs
Quote: Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Author: St. Teresa of Avila 1515-1582, Spanish Saint, Mystic
Quote: Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. Author: Donald Trump 1946-, American Businessman
Quote: The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Everyone has 20/20 hindsight Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is largely non-transferable. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise Author: Source Unknown
Quote: One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. Author: Abigail Van Buren American Journalist, Columnist
Quote: There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. Author: Rebecca West 1892-1983, British Author
Quote: An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. Author: Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947, British Mathematician, Philosopher
Quote: Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: Experience is the key to greatness. Author: Arthur Williams
Quote: Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment. Author: Cousin Woodman