EXPERIENCE QUOTES
quotations about experience
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Experience is a safe guide.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Solitude
Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Major-General Armstrong, Mar. 26, 1781
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
OSCAR WILDE, Lady Windermere's Fan
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, Among My Books
- The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind
- Hath foul'd me.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Idylls of the King
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced--even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS, letter to George and Georgiana Keats, Mar. 19, 1818
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, The Art of Fiction
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to Fielding Lewis, Jul. 6, 1780
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. 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, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.
Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
Experience gives us the tests first and the lessons later.
NAOMI JUDD, public radio interview, 1994
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Professor at the Breakfast Table
What is all knowledge too but recorded experience?
THOMAS CARLYLE, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI, Vivian Grey
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
JOHN KEATS, letter to John Hamilton Reynolds, May 3, 1818
Of all the things that make up a girl's life, I think it would be fair to categorize most of them into two groups: things done and things yet to do. And that is exactly how the years pass--waiting for certain milestones (like blue eye shadow) to come by so you can leap over them with joy and delight in your own maturity. Things like shopping--that is a given, since you've been doing it since you could walk. Slow-dancing with Greg Alcoke--that was a biggie, since it was preceded by such great anticipation. And so things go until you wake up one day and realize that the only thing left for you to experience is walking toward a bright light.
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1825
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.
TIMOTHY LEARY, Change Your Brain
The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON, attributed, The Ship of Thought
We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER, "The Jewel of the Seven Stars"
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