Famous Experience Quotes



Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Henry David Thoreau

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

John Stuart Mill

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent van Gogh

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Ambrose Bierce

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Ernst Mach

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Samuel Johnson

Experience by itself is not science.

Edmund Husserl

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

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

By far the best proof is experience.

Francis Bacon

Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

William James

I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller – some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

Alfred de Vigny

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Virginia Woolf

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

Quintilian

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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.

George Washington

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