A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
52 quotes from George Eliot
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.
14 more quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
22 wisdom & wit from Andre Gide
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
7 more wisdom & wit from Louis D. Brandeis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
25 wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
52 sayings from George Eliot
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
4 thoughts from Clarence Day
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
78 thoughts from Voltaire
It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
11 other quotes from Aneurin Bevan
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
19 other quotes from Jonathan Swift
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
4 more quotes from Auguste Rodin
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
13 other quotes from Amos Bronson Alcott
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
29 other wisdom & wit from Friedrich Schiller
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.
14 quotes from Muhammad Iqbal
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
5 more quotes from Abigail Adams
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
52 views from Albert Camus
Dramatic experience is not logical it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
3 thoughts from Allen Tate
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
7 more quotes from Ninon de L'Enclos
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
23 quotes from Henry Miller
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
4 quotes from Ellen Key
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
3 more quotes from Muriel Rukeyser
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
14 other quotes from Heinrich Heine
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
46 quotes from George Santayana
Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
4 thoughts from Oscar Levant
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
12 sayings from J. Paul Getty
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
46 more quotes from George Santayana
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
9 quotes from Rainer Maria Rilke
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
46 views from George Santayana
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
75 other sayings from Benjamin Disraeli
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
46 other quotes from George Santayana
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
11 thoughts from Rebecca West
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
3 thoughts from Samuel Alexander
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
10 more wisdom & wit from Charles de Secondat
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
30 wisdom & wit from Virginia Woolf
Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
4 wisdom & wit from Federico Fellini
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
96 thoughts from Benjamin Franklin
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
23 views from Paul Cezanne
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one?
2 wisdom & wit from Lawrence G. Lovasik
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
40 other quotes from William James
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
6 views from Edith Wharton
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
2 thoughts from Roger Bacon
Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
12 wisdom & wit from Ludwig van Beethoven
Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
24 views from W. C. Fields
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
67 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
10 sayings from Edward Abbey
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
67 sayings from Francis Bacon
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
56 other views from Khalil Gibran
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
6 more quotes from Roger Ascham
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
12 more quotes from Quintilian
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
22 quotes from Henry Adams
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
19 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
6 more wisdom & wit from Harold MacMillan
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
6 views from Harold MacMillan
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
13 other quotes from Ansel Adams
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
4 thoughts from Henry Reed
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
47 more thoughts from Abraham Lincoln
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
9 quotes from John Steinbeck
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
24 quotes from James Russell Lowell
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
5 quotes from Sacha Guitry
Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
30 thoughts from George Washington
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
10 more wisdom & wit from Peter De Vries
Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
2 other wisdom & wit from Ernst Mach
Experience is the teacher of all things.
12 other thoughts from Julius Caesar
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
18 other views from Joseph Campbell
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
18 quotes from Joseph Campbell
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
6 quotes from William Morris
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
11 wisdom & wit from Henrik Ibsen
The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
7 sayings from Gloria Swanson
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
13 other quotes from Immanuel Kant
Deep experience is never peaceful.
10 more views from Henry James
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
4 other sayings from Ellen Glasgow
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
27 sayings from Leonardo da Vinci
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
13 other wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
8 views from Karl Kraus
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!
81 thoughts from William Shakespeare
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
13 more wisdom & wit from Immanuel Kant
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
11 quotes from William Ellery Channing
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
8 views from Thomas Hobbes
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
42 quotes from Josh Billings
Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
6 thoughts from Harvey S. Firestone
The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
5 wisdom & wit from Henri Poincare
All experience is subjective.
4 quotes from Gregory Bateson
Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
11 more views from Salvador Dali
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
26 thoughts from Harry S. Truman
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
21 quotes from Karl Marx
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
52 other quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
2 wisdom & wit from Randolph Bourne
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
23 more quotes from E. W. Howe
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
11 sayings from John Stuart Mill
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
52 more thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton
My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
33 more sayings from Thomas Huxley
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
5 other wisdom & wit from Isadora Duncan
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.
26 quotes from Sigmund Freud
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
9 other quotes from Margaret Fuller
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
5 more sayings from Isadora Duncan
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
24 quotes from James A. Baldwin
The reward of suffering is experience.
26 more views from Harry S. Truman
The years teach much which the days never know.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
11 other quotes from John Stuart Mill
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
5 other wisdom & wit from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
5 more sayings from Isadora Duncan
You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
5 more sayings from Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
9 thoughts from Margaret Fuller
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
3 quotes from Isaac D'Israeli
Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
4 more quotes from Florence Nightingale
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
59 other wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
10 thoughts from Elizabeth Bowen
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
2 wisdom & wit from Martha Washington
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
20 views from Christopher Lasch
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
3 quotes from Allen Ginsberg
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
57 sayings from Blaise Pascal
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
3 other quotes from Dorothy L. Sayers
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
18 quotes from Don Marquis
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
8 quotes from Mary Baker Eddy
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
19 thoughts from Marshall McLuhan
Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
45 sayings from Aldous Huxley
Experience teaches only the teachable.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
19 quotes from Carl Jung
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
31 quotes from Eric Hoffer
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
13 other wisdom & wit from Dag Hammarskjold
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
9 other quotes from George Sand
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
32 views from Henry Ford
The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
11 thoughts from William Osler
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
19 quotes from Carl Jung
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
115 more views from George Bernard Shaw
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
117 more quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
7 other thoughts from Walter Benjamin
Experience is the extract of suffering.
6 sayings from Arthur Helps
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
8 more wisdom & wit from Mary Baker Eddy
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
15 views from John Locke
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
3 quotes from Walter Pater
An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
3 quotes from James Baldwin
Certainly I've had the experience of thinking a person was one thing, and finding out they were another.
2 more sayings from John Hawkes
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
21 more quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
2 sayings from Georges Clemenceau
All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
4 views from Al Capp
Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.
24 more views from Henri Frederic Amiel
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
6 other thoughts from Emil Zatopek
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
60 other thoughts from H. L. Mencken
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
21 more views from Miguel de Cervantes
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
90 sayings from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
60 views from H. L. Mencken
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
100 other sayings from Oscar Wilde
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
8 thoughts from Alphonse de Lamartine
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
4 thoughts from Thomas Wolfe
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
19 quotes from John Keats
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
13 views from e. e. cummings
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
2 more quotes from Annie Besant
The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.
9 quotes from John Dewey
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
15 more views from Desiderius Erasmus
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower