Quotes

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

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

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
-Bette Davis

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
-Edward R Murrow

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
-George Bernard Shaw

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-Helen Keller

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
-Isadora Duncan

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
-James Anthony Froude

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
-John W Gardner

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
-Josh Billings

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.
-Abraham Lincoln

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
-Aldous Huxley

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
-Dante Alighieri

A burnt child dreads the fire.
-English Proverb

To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
-George Crabbe

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
-Helen Keller

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.
-J A Froude

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

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
-Joseph Addison

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
-Josh Billings

Suffering brings experience.
-Aeschylus

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others You wont have time to make them all yourself
-Alfred Sheinwold

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 is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-F P Jones

In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.
-George Crabbe

You can't step twice into the same river.
-Heraclitus of Ephesus

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.
-James Anthony Froude

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
-James Russell Lowell

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.?.
-Joseph Farrell

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
-Judith Stern

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-Abigail Van Buren

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-Albert Camus

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience
-Alice James

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
-Dr Thomas Doole

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
-George Bernard Shaw

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
-Georges Clemenceau

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer

Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.
-James Anthony Froude

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
-Jim Horning

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.
-Joseph Roux

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust
-Karl Kraus