quotations about experience
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.
GWEN MACSAI
Lipshtick
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
preface, Genealogy of Morals
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
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Experience is a comb
And love
(Love)
Love's a dog from hell
AKA BROWN
"Experience Is a Comb", Dogs From Hell
Waste is obscene don't make a wrong move
Learn from experience
SWANS
"Half Life", Cop
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
Paris Review, fall 2012
From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1825
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Professor at the Breakfast Table
Because he never raises his eyes to the great and the meaningful, the philistine has taken experience as his gospel. It has become for him a message about life's commonness. But he has never grasped that there exists something other than experience, that there are values--inexperienceable--which we serve.
WALTER BENJAMIN
"Experience", Selected Writing
Her hopes ne'er drew
Aught from experience, that chill touchstone, whose
Sad proof reduces all things from their hues.
LORD BYRON
The Island
Experience is the most eloquent of preachers, but she never has a large congregation.
BERZ
attributed, Day's Collacon
Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
Experience is ... the mirror of Intelligence,
Time's open book and Life's philosophy
Sent to dispel the night of Ignorance.
JAMES WOODMANSEE
Wrinkles from the Brow of Experience and Other Poems
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
Experience is another word for mistakes.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
HOSEA BALLOU
Edge-Tools of Speech
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Vivian Grey
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature. It is not enough to have opportunity, it is essential to feel it. Some occasions come to all men; but to many they are of little use, and to some they are none.
WALTER BAGEHOT
Literary Studies
To wish that others should learn by our experience, is sometimes as idle as to think that we can eat and they be filled; but when we find that we have eaten poison, it is doubtless mercy to warn others against the dish.
ELIZA COOK
Diamond Dust