John W. Gardner
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
John Keats
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
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Experience Quotes |
Fred Brooks
Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.
Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts
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
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux
A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry B. Adams
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
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
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill
We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay
We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.
Paulo Coelho,
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Randy Pausch
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
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
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler