Quotes
Quotes about Experience
I have gained my experience.
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.
Unless experience be a jewel.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.
Remote from cities liv'd a swain,
Unvex'd with all the cares of gain;
His head was silver'd o'er with age,
And long experience made him sage.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
For just experience tells, in every soil,
That those that think must govern those that toil.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.
You that woo the Voices--tell them "Old Experience is a fool";
Teach your flattered kings that only those who can not read can rule.
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist
There are cerebral experiences of a nature too complex to be susceptible of expression through any medium except that of music
Spending half an hour or an hour, or two hours, on a piece of narrative fiction gives us the same kind of holistic, the same kind of total effect, the effect of being absorbed in an artistic experience without interruption that we get from listening to a piece of music
Everything we've experienced on earth seems to point toward the permanence of pain
I have had too much experience with revenants to scoff at the living traces the dead leave behind. Ghosts walk, no doubt about it
Women will ever go for the experienced man. They can oft see experience in a man's eyes
Novels are really made out of day to day experience
A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!
