Experience - Quotes

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. - Samuel Parkes Cadman

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

All experience is an enrichment rather than an impoverishment. - Eudora Welty

Anyone who has had a long life of experiences is worth listening to, worth emulating, and worth tying to as a friend. No one can have too much experience in any line of endeavor. We readily welcome to our group of friends that one who talks with the voice of experience and common sense. We know that we are safe in his hands. He is not going to get us into trouble. Rather is he going to point out the pitfalls and mistakes that experience has taught him to avoid. There is no experience but what carries its lasting good for us along with it. And you don’t have to discard experience. It’s a coat for life! It never wears out. - George Matthew Adams

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. - Joseph Farrell

Borrowing other people’s experience to do things does not necessarily make you unoriginal. You can always find new and better ways of applying an old method. - Unknown

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light. - Raymond Holliwell

Every crucial experience can be regarded as a setback – or the start of a new kind of development. - Mary Rinehart

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. - Orison Swett Marden

Every experience is a form of exploration. - Ansel Adams

Every experience you have is designed to make you stronger. - Unknown

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward Roscoe Murrow 

Experience alone can decide on truth. - Albert Einstein

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn’t reduce our follies. - Josh Billings

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. - Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. - Unknown

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. - Josh Billings

Experience is a pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way. - Eliza Cook

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. - Leonardo da Vinci

Experience is another word for mistakes. - Ken Alstad

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other. - Judy Collins

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. - Henry James 

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. - Aldous Huxley

Experience is one thing you cannot get for nothing. - Oscar Wilde

Experience is retrospect knowledge. - Hosea Ballou

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. - Unknown

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. - Thomas Caryle

Experience is the best teacher. - Latin Proverb

Experience is the extract of suffering. - Arthur Helps

Experience is the mother of wisdom. - Unknown

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde 

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy. - Ivan Panin

Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get. - L. Frank Baum

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. - Katherine Anne Porter

Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want. - Unknown

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin

Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that’s widely distributed. - William Feather

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. - Donald Trump

Experience teaches only the teachable. - Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. - James Anthony Froude

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price. - Ivan Panin

Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences. - Miquel de Cervantes

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

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future. - John Quincy Adams

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment. - Mark Twain

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance. - Lin Po

Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn – when they do, which isn’t often – on their own, the hard way. - Robert Heinlein

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

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. - Havelock Ellis

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. - Marcus Fabius Quintilian

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. - J. Paul Getty

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others. - George Henry Lewes

Information is pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. - Unknown

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction. - Steve Jobs

It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. - L.M. Montgomery

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience. - Jonathan Swift

No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience. - John Locke

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

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. - William Ellery Channing

One thing about experience is that when you don't have very much you're apt to get a lot. - Franklin P. Jones

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. - James Russell Lowell

Present experience has, I am afraid, always found us "absent-minded": we cannot give our hearts to it – not even our ears! Rather, as one divinely preoccupied and immersed in himself into whose ear the bell has just boomed with all its strength the twelve beats of noon suddenly starts up and asks himself: "what really was that which just struck?" so we sometimes rub our ears afterward and as, utterly surprised and disconcerted, "what really was that which we have just experienced?" - Friedrich Nietzsche

That’s the way people go. They have a powerful experience and they use it to interpret, rightly or wrongly, what happens later in the rest of the world. - James Fenton

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. - Samuel Smile

The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless. - Peter G. Peterson

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most beautiful experience is the mysterious. He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe is as good as dead. His eyes are closed. - Albert Einstein

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences. - Jacques Rousseau

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. - Doug Larson

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. - Hosea Ballou

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life – life's "experiences" – are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side. - Mark Twain

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. - Unknown

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. - George Washington

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. - Oscar Wilde

We are all products of our own experiences – good and bad. - Noah Bennet

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture. - Charles Caleb Colton

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. - George Bernard Shaw

We learn of great things by little experiences. - Bram Stoker

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 on a hot stove lid again – and that is well; but also, she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - Mark Twain

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. - Maya Angelou

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