Experience Quotes

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.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Heinrich Heine

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

Albert Camus

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

Deepak Chopra

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Leonardo da Vinci

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.

Richard Branson

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Mahatma Gandhi

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Paul Getty

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Sigmund Freud

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

William James

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

Marshall McLuhan

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

R. S. Storrs

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Will Rogers

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

Rebecca West