Experience Quotes

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.

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.