Experience Quotes

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time

Henrik Ibsen

The triumph of hope over experience

Samuel Johnson

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last

William Morris

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

Harold Taylor

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Ellen Goodman

Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.

Bette Greene

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Jimmy Carter

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Don Marquis

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions

Joseph Roux

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

George Washington

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

Martin Luther

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche