Experience quotes

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

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

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.