Experience Quotes

I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.

In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Fame is fickle, and I know it. It has its compensations but it also has its drawbacks, and I've experienced them both.

All artists experience a lull in their work. It is a period of replenishing the soil - of plowing in and turning under our past experiences and watering them afresh with new ones.

People miss happiness by chasing after false values and repressing the feelings that make life valuable and beautiful. When you get up in the morning feeling fine your experience during just those few minutes or hours when you are reacting happily to life is an end in itself.

Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got. Everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.