Experience Quotes

Welcome to Experience Quotes. Here you will find famous quotes and quotations about experience.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. ~Mark Twain

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.~Oliver Wendell Holmes

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson

All experience is an arch, to build upon. ~Henry B. Adams

All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ~Don Marquis

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. ~Jan Peter Balkenende

Color is an intense experience on its own. ~Jim Hodges

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ~Flannery O'Connor

Deep experience is never peaceful. ~Henry James

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger

Every moment is an experience. ~Jake Roberts

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ~Andre Gide

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ~A. R. Ammons

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ~Ambrose Bierce

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. ~Joseph Roux

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ~Franklin P. Jones

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. ~Heinrich Heine

Experience is a great teacher. ~John Legend

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. ~Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. ~Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ~Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the teacher of all things. ~Julius Caesar

Experience teaches only the teachable. ~Aldous Huxley

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. ~Immanuel Kant

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ~C. S. Lewis

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ~Karl Kraus

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. ~Rita Mae Brown

I think we are a product of all our experiences. ~Sanford I. Weill

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ~Abigail Van Buren

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. ~Abraham Lincoln

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. ~Walter Wriston

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ~Soren Kierkegaard

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

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John W. Gardner

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. ~Albert Bandura

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. ~Ally Sheedy

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. ~Agnetha Faltskog

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. ~Walter Pater

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. ~John Keats

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. ~M. Scott Peck

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. ~John Ruskin

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. ~Alice Walker

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. ~John Frusciante

The only source of knowledge is experience. ~Albert Einstein

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. ~Frank McCourt

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. ~William Osler

The years teach much which the days never know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. ~John Stuart Mill

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

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. ~Amy Grant

We are each responsible for all of our experiences. ~Louise L. Hay

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. ~Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print. ~Isadora Duncan

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. ~Albert Camus

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ~Albert Camus