Quotes about experience

"The more experiments you make the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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"I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am."

Ford, Gerald R. on experience   

"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."

Ford, Henry on experience   

"Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other."

Franklin, Benjamin on experience   

"My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers."

Fun, Brigham Young on experience   

"In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later."

Geneen, Harold S. on experience   

"In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy."

Getty, J. Paul on experience
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"No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book."

Glasgow, Ellen on experience   

"One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are."

Godwin, Gail on experience   

"Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

Grenfell, Wilfred T. on experience   

"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

Heine, Heinrich on experience
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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."

Heinlein, Robert on experience
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"Experience is the extract of suffering."

Helps, Sir Arthur on experience   

"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused."

Hemingway, Ernest on experience
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"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

Henry, Patrick on experience   

"I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience."

Hepburn, Audrey on experience
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"The fool knows after he's suffered."

Hesiod on experience   

"It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project."

Hill, Napoleon on experience
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"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."

Huxley, Aldous on experience
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"Experience teaches only the teachable."

Huxley, Aldous on experience   

"From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."

Huxley, Aldous on experience   

"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

Jagger, Mick on experience
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"The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience."

James, Henry on experience   

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

James, Henry on experience   

"Deep experience is never peaceful."

James, Henry on experience   

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"If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser."

Johnson on experience   

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Jones, Franklin P. on experience   

"It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet."

Kafka, Franz on experience   

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it."

Keats, John on experience
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"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on experience   

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

Law, Vernon S. on experience   

"Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time."

LeMond, Greg on experience   

"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on experience   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on experience
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

Locke, John on experience   

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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

Lowell, James Russell on experience   

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"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."

Marx, Karl on experience   

"Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around."

Mccormick, Terry on experience   

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

Mcluhan, Marshall on experience   

"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."

Menander of Athens on experience