Experience Quotes

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor

Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James

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

Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
Ally Sheedy

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Agnetha Faltskog

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
John Frusciante

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
John Stuart Mill

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant


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