Experience Quotes

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

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

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

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

"I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else."

"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

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

"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."

"My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones."

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

"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

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

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

"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."

"Experience is a good school. But the fees are high."

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

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."

"I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women."

"A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality."

"We're made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it."

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it."

"Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man."

"Experience is a great teacher."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

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

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

"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue."

"Being in love is the only transcendent experience."

"But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn."

"Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is!"

"To wear a floral shirt is an experience."