Experience Quotes

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

John Keats

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

Dave Obey

I really do love Diana Ross I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

Salma Hayek

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Keanu Reeves

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Muhammad Iqbal

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Stone

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Thor Heyerdahl

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylor

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. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.

Jean Houston

What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

C.S. Lewis

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

Simon Bolivar

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately involved with what's going on, so that they maybe can experience it a little bit more intensely.

Andrea Arnold

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

LouisFerdinand Celine

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Louis C. K.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

Hannah Arendt