Experience Quotes

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

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

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."

"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."

"To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience."

"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely."

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."

"The reward of suffering is experience."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."

"Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish."

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."