Quotes about experience

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

— Sir Philip Sidney

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

— Bernie S. Siegel

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

— Viola Spolin

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

— Judith Stern

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

— R. S. Storrs

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

— Lord Alfred Tennyson

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

— St. Teresa of Avila

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

— Brian Tracy

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

— Mark Twain

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

— Source Unknown

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

— Source Unknown

Everyone has 20/20 hindsight

— Source Unknown

Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

— Source Unknown

Experience is largely non-transferable.

— Source Unknown

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

— Source Unknown

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

— Source Unknown

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

— Source Unknown

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

— Source Unknown

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

— Source Unknown

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

— Source Unknown

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

— Abigail Van Buren

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

— Rebecca West

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

— Oscar Wilde

Experience is the key to greatness.

— Arthur Williams

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

— Cousin Woodman

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect.

— (Frederick II) Frederick The Great

Impossiblities recede as experience advances.

— Source Unknown

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

— Donald Trump