Experience Quotes
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Adams, Douglas
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.
Adler, Felix
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Barrymore, Ethel
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
Brown, Rita Mae
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Buck, Pearl S.
One faces the future with one's past.
Camus, Albert
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Chesterton, G.K.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Cooper, Vernon
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Dewey, John
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.
Franklin, Benjamin
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Fulghum, Robert
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Gibbon, Edward
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Jones, Franklin P.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Santayana, George
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
Seeger, Pete
Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Smiles, Samuel
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
I am a part of all that I have met.
Tuchman, Barbara
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Twain, Mark
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.
Wharton, Edith
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Wilde, Oscar
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.