Experience quotes

“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.” Douglas Adams

“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.” Lois McMaster Bujold

“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new.” Galileo Galilei

“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when your changing. Your growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.” Steve Jobs

“Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.” Martin Luther King

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” Rodin

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.” Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” Albert Einstein

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.” Albert Einstein

“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” Woody Allen

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” Frank Herbert

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.” Oscar Wilde

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” Paulo Coelho

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.” Ray Bradbury

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.” Leonardo da Vinci

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Confucius

“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.” Confucius

“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.” Norman Vincent Peale

“I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.” Sigmund Freud

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” Sigmund Freud

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” Ludwig van Beethoven

“Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.” Marilyn Monroe

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” Abraham Lincoln

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.” Horace

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.” Karl Marx

“Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.” Salvador Dali

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.” Aldous Huxley