Experience Quotes

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

If you don’t learn constantly, you don’t grow and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

In music, silence is more important than sound.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

‎The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

The symbol in Chinese for crisis is made up of two ideographs: one means danger, the other means opportunity. This symbol is a reminder that we can choose to turn a crisis into an opportunity or into a negative experience.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

The man of wealth [should] consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer to produce the most beneficial results for the community - the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience and ability to administer, doing for them better than that they would or could do for themselves.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.