The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
Felix Adler
A man’s errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Never, “for the sake of peace and quiet,” deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Barbara Tuchman
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Edward Gibbon
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.
John Maxwell
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Eric Severeid
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.
Alfred Sheinwold
The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.
There’s no substitute for experience.
Proverb quotes
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J. Kaiser
There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.
Tom Krause
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
Dan Stanford
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Dali Lama
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.
Kevin Arnold
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.
Pete Seeger
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Leonard Huxley
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.
Douglas Adams
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Proverb
The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
David T. Wolf
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high.
Norwegian Proverb
No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients.
Hindu Proverb
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Josh Billings
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Bob Packwood
In youth we learn; in age we understand.
Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.
Sasha Azevedo
If experience was so important, we’d never have had anyone walk on the moon.
Doug Rader
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
Stephen Leacock