experience quotes

• We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. (George Bernard Shaw) [experience/men/experience]
• The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. (Arthur Miller) [problem/feeling/experience]
• It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last. (William Morris) [words/experience/words/experience]
• In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature. (Arthur Conan Doyle) [experience/women/face/nature]
• And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. (Jack London) [experience/youth/time/wild]
• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs. (Mario Andretti) [knowledge/experience]
• Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. (Francis Bacon) [perfect/nature/experience]
• Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. (James Baldwin) [experience]
• Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it. (James Baldwin) [experience]
• An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience. (James Baldwin) [experience]
• We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours. (James Baldwin) [experience/beliefs]
• The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. (James Baldwin) [responsibility/experience/people]
• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. (Walter Benjamin) [bird/experience]
• Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. (Walter Benjamin) [experience/more/hierarchy]
• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable. (Arnold Bennett) [experience/pleasure/pain/reach]
• A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. (Paul Bourget) [experience/love]
• That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience. (Charles Bukowski) [experience]
• Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. (James Callaghan) [people/experience/intellect]
• Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Miguel De Cervantes) [proverbs/experience]
• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Miguel De Cervantes) [experience]
• There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [condition/experience/form/women]
• I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [find/experience/mind/soul & body]
• Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [truth/experience]
• When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [experience/love/childhood/youth]
• Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [experience]
• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. (Marcus Cicero) [experience/instinct]
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ( Confucius) [wisdom/experience]
• There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. ( Confucius) [wisdom/experience]
• Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. (John Dewey) [happiness/life/experience/unique]
• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts. (Benjamin Disraeli) [experience/willpower/mind/observation]
• So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. (Isadora Duncan) [experience]

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