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Quotes about Experience


If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Keller

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R Murrow

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Abraham Lincoln

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

James Rodin

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 have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

Russell R McIntyre

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Keller

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

Edward R Murrow

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Saunders Law

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Josh Billings

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Josh Billings

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are.Ê.

Joseph Farrell

Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Joseph Roux

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

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

Randolph Bourne

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Abigail Van Buren

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan

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