Experience Quotes

Experience is the teacher of all things. (Julius Caesar)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. View quote
Joseph Addison
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Experience, the name men give to their mistakes. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. View quote
Aldous Huxley
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. View quote
Douglas Adams
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. View quote
Minna Antrim
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience. View quote
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. (Alfred North Whitehead)
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. View quote
George Washington
Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. View quote
Lawrence Klein
By far the best proof is experience. View quote
Francis Bacon
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Wisdom is the daughter of experience. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience teaches only the teachable. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The only source of knowledge is experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience. View quote
Berthe Morisot
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. View quote
Max Frisch
Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
Science is the systematic classification of experience. View quote
George Henry Lewes
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. View quote
Henry Miller
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. View quote
Alphonse de Lamartine
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. View quote
Hans Hofmann