Experience quotes

Adler Renata

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Anonymous

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience - well, than comes from poor judgement.

Antrim Minna

Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Studies"

They perfect nature and are perfected by experience.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Essays „Of Travel"

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some  entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Bagehot Walter 1826-1877

To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

Baldwin James 1924-1987

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Baruch Bernard 1870-1965

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records.
A man can't retire his experience. He must use  it. Experience achieves more with less energy  and time.

Bax Sir Arnold 1883-1953

You should make a point of trying every  experience once, excepting incest and folk- dancing.

Benn Tony 1925-

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once.

Chiaromente Nicola

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any othre approach is bound to  be general and abstract.

Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

Colton Charles Caleb c. 1780-1832

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen  their minds but weaken their morals.

Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881

Vivian Grey

Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

Ellis Havelock 1859-1939

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Ford Gerald 1909-

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Frisch Max 1911-1991

Technology - the knack of so arranging the  world that we don't have to experience it.

Frost Robert 1874-1963

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

Goethe Johann von 1749-1832

Italienische Reise

Since it is a joy to have the benefit of what is good, it is a greater one to experience what is better, and in art the best is good enough.

Hardy Thomas 1840-1928

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity  of the experience than to its actual lenght.

Holmes Oliver Wendell Jr. 1841-1935

The life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.

Hume Cardinal Basil 1932-

(on homophobia and Catholicsm)

To love one another, whether of the same sex or of a different sex, is to have entered the area of richest human experience.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Huxley Aldous 1894-1963

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what  a man does with what happens to him.

James Henry 1843-1916

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Boswell - Life (of a man who remarried)

A triumph of hope over experience.

Joyce James 1882-1941

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality  of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated  conscience of my race ... Old father, old artificer, stand me now  and ever in good stead.

Kennedy John F. 1917-1963

(after appointing his brother Attorney General)

I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little  experience before he starts to practise law.

Kepes Gyorgy

The really great visual experience today is to fly  over a huge city and look down into the night.
It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree.
You hust feel life is worth living - when you  come down you may have some doubts.

Lamb Charles 1775-1834

We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors, to escape from the  pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.

Law Vernon

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Locke John 1632-1704

An Essay concerning Human

Understanding

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Mann Thomas 1875-1955

The Magic Mountain

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the  experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do  not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the  category of objective events, and that's that.

Marquis Don 1878-1937

archy and mehitabel

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Milton John 1608-1674

„Il Penseroso"

Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.

Montaigne Michel de 1533-1592

It is commonly seen by experience that excellent memories  do often accompany weak judgements.

Parker Charlie 1920-1955

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it it won't come out of your horn.

Pascal Blaise 1623-1662

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

Proverbs and Sayings

Belgian

Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when are bald.

Salisbury Lord 1830-1903

Letter to Lord Lytton

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is  wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe  the soldiers, nothing is safe.

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

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

Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950

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

Stalin Joseph 1879-1953

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class  has vountarily made way for another class.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

Idylls of the King „The Last Tournament"

The dirty nurse, Experience, in her kind
Hath fouled me.

Twain Mark 1835-1910

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot  stove - lid.  She will never sit down on a hot stove - lid again - and that is  well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Wilde Oscar 1854-1900

Lady Windermere's Fan

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Wolfe Thomas 1900-1938

Loneliness is and always has been the central  and inevitable experience of every man.

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