Experience quotes

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the 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.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

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

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.