All Quotes

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.
‐‐ Matthew Green

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
‐‐ Allen Tate

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

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
‐‐ Karl Marx

Experience proves that in this life peace and satisfaction are had, not by the listless but by those who are fervent in God's service. And rightly so. For in their effort to overcome themselves and to rid themselves of self-love, they rid themselves of the roots of all passion and unrest.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius

Experience really does make you better, man.
‐‐ Alan Vega

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
‐‐ George Santayana

Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
‐‐ Marv Levy

Experience shows that if you put more ethicists on a problem, you can end up with more problems.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
‐‐ Charles Buxton

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.
‐‐ Niklaus Wirth

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
‐‐ Bob McNair

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.
‐‐ Mo Ibrahim

Experience shows us that most people's votes are based on their biases, not on objective reality. Elections are a collective gut reaction. That any good comes of it at all is the miracle of democracy.
‐‐ David Horsey

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
‐‐ Donald Trump

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.
‐‐ Dave Obey

Experience teaches only the teachable.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
‐‐ James Anthony Froude

Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
‐‐ George Washington

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
‐‐ Mary Baker Eddy

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

Experience tells us that a good foundation is critical for success in the Arctic and elsewhere. ExxonMobil's Sakhalin-1 project with Rosneft is an example where we have put this experience to work.
‐‐ Rex Tillerson

Experience tells us that we do not need more overspending or higher taxes to grow jobs. We do not need more regulations or more government control - such as the government takeover of health care or the restrictions in domestic energy production.
‐‐ Tim Walberg

Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.
‐‐ Richard McCabe

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
‐‐ Stan Smith

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works of the Impressionists, van Gogh, van Dongen, and Fauves, I admired it. But I had to seek the true way alone.
‐‐ Piet Mondrian

Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany.
‐‐ Auguste Escoffier

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
‐‐ Immanuel Kant

Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.
‐‐ Greg Iles

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

Experiences from our youth shape what we do later in life.
‐‐ Jan Koum

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
‐‐ Ramana Maharshi

Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

Experiencing this film in 2-D is only getting about 20 percent of the experience of 'Gravity.'
‐‐ Alfonso Cuaron

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

Experimental economics is about conducting experiments: bringing economics into the laboratory or creating controlled conditions in the field that allow us to understand better what we are seeing in less controlled circumstances.
‐‐ Alvin E. Roth

Experimental film by the '70s had become much more mainstream after 'Bonnie and Clyde' and stuff in the late '60s, when you were seeing bigger movies where people were exploring the medium a lot more.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.
‐‐ Jerome Isaac Friedman

Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
‐‐ Barbara Ehrenreich

Experimental work of great refinement is necessary in order to determine atomic weights. No relationships between them have yet been certainly found which make it possible for us to compute by any sort of calculation exactly the value of any one atomic weight from any other.
‐‐ Theodore William Richards

Experimentation is an active science.
‐‐ Claude Bernard