Experience Quotes

We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.

They say in the Middle East a pessimist is simply an optimist with experience.

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

That's the magic of art and the magic of theatre: it has the power to transform an audience, an individual, or en masse, to transform them and give them an epiphanal experience that changes their life, opens their hearts and their minds and the way they think.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I'm not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events - anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I'm saying because I have experience with that.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.