Experience Quotes

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool.

I'm not dismissing the value of higher education; I'm simply saying it comes at the expense of experience.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions

If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.