Experience Quotes

Experience Quote of the day

Don't be afraid to start over again. This time you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

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.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

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.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

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.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

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.

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

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.

You had a near life experience.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.