Experience Quotes

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: we read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Every moment is an experience.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

It is good to learn what to avoid by studying the misfortunes of others.

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with what happens to him.