Experience Quotes - Page 13

• Experience is the teacher of all things.

  Julius Caesar

  Life, Teacher, All Things

  "Commentarii de Bello Civili" by Julius Caesar,

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• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

  Charles de Lint

  Art, Nature, Believe

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• Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Courses, Industry

  William Shakespeare, William C. Carroll (2004). “The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Third Series”, p.160, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  Karl Marx

  Life, Happiness, Philosophical

  Karl Marx, Loyd David Easton, Kurt H. Guddat (1997). “Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society”, p.39, Hackett Publishing

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• 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.

  A. E. Housman

  Morning, Memories, Skins

  The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)

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• He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

  William Pett Ridge

  Niece, Arms, Way

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• What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Missing, Values

  Jorge Luis Borges (1998). “Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations”, p.19, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Passion

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1155, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Future, Science, Past

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• Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Race, Creative, Action

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.248, Lulu.com

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

  Andre Gide

  Communication, Learning, Knowledge

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  James Russell Lowell

  Faith, Color, Weather

  Carl Schurz, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Speech A”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You only have control over three things in your life - the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior). How you use these three things determines everything you experience. If you don't like what you are producing and experiencing, you have to change your responses.

  Jack Canfield

  Life, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 24, 2012

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• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Practicals, Unfathomable

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

  Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Heart

  "Loneliness and the Sacred Web of Life" by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

  Heinrich Heine

  Learning, School, Fees

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• Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

  Bernard Baruch

  Teacher, Retirement, Numbers

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• What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

  Isadora Duncan

  Understanding, Print

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Exhausted, Reverence

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• To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

  George Washington

  Past, Might, Impossible

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.32, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Drawing, Water

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.164

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Self

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

  Wallis Simpson

  Challenges, Intense, Revolving Doors

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