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.

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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.

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

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.

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

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

The years teach much which the days never know.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

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.

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