Experience Quotes

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

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

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

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

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Example is the best precept.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Tragedy makes you grow up.