experience quotes

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”

“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

“I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live. ”

— Marilyn Monroe

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. ”

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”

— Aldous Huxley

“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”

— Franz Kafka

“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”

“You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.”

— Robert Rodriguez

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. ”

“Experience is the teacher of all things. ”

— Julius Caesar

“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. ”

“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty. ”

— Johnny Depp

“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. ”

“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. ”

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”

— Audrey Hepburn

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

— Helen Keller

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