Famous Experience Quotes
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.
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
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.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
By far the best proof is experience.
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.
In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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?
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.
Experience by itself is not science.
