Experience Quotes

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Great men never require experience.

Let the experience begin!

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life flowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

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

God much are the truly wealthy. So our inner happiness depends not on what we experience but on the degree of our gratitude to God, Gratitude — the Secret of Life.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner.

Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Experience is never at bargain price.

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe.

Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

Look at your life. Look at the ways in which you define who you are and what you’re capable of achieving. Look at your goals. Look at the pressures applied by the people around you and the culture in which you were raised. Look again. And again. Keep looking until you realize, within your own experience, that you’re so much more than who you believe you are. Keep looking until you discover the wondrous heart, the marvelous mind, that is the very basis of your being.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do