1,005 Quotes Regarding Experience


All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
Jean Houston

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
Richard Dawkins

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Moses Hadas

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
James A. Baldwin

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
Vash Young

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
Al Gore

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
Charles Stanley

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.
Henry A. Kissinger

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Marshall McLuhan

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
Henry A. Kissinger

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
James Russell Lowell