1,005 Quotes Regarding Experience


Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
John Frusciante

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

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

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It 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 outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller

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

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley