Experience Quotes

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.
Ally Sheedy

Happy, Through, Learn

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman

Morning, Poetry, Thoughts

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Anne Lamott

Friendship, Best, Truth

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Men, Wise, Prophecy

Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux

Wisdom, Lost, Rather

All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

Wisdom, Cannot, Aside

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne

Few, Less, Surface

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
John Frusciante

Time, Taught, Main

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day

Pretty, Stuff, Unless

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura

Reality, Actions, Based

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons

Everything, Opinion, Direct

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing

Nothing, Lost, Entered

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater

Quote

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley

Wisdom, Happens

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

Wisdom, May, Learn

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

Whole, Worth, Warning

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Courage, Fear

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage, Strength, Fear

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