Experience Quotes

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

Saint Teresa of Avila

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

Oscar Wilde, attributed, no sour

We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.

George Saunders

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

Tim Roth

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Georges Clemenceau

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Elizabeth Bowen

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

David Mitchell

When I was 27 years old, I organized legal aid clinics to help low-income seniors. It was a life-altering experience.

Ron Wyden

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

George Washington

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Benjamin Franklin

I've had a great experience with pretty much everybody I've worked with.

Mia Wasikowska

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

Damian Lewis

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

Jennifer Lopez

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Ambrose Bierce

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

Barbara de Angelis

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?

George Eliot