Experience Quotes

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The years teach much which the days never know.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

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

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.

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

And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Mississippi Mermaid was a very special experience because we only had the dialogues for the scenes we were shooting the night before.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

The reward of suffering is experience.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

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.

In order to grow old, you have to experience everything, but in moderation.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.