Experience Quotes

The knowledge we gain from textbooks can never measure to the wisdom we gain through experience.

~ Anika De Souza

Education is not only learning the information, but it is also about gaining experience to unlock the door to wisdom.

~ Debasish Mridha

You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..

~ Jayesh Varma

I can only be me.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Life really could be an enjoyable experience, if we only knew what it demands of us.

~ Sunday Adelaja

From my experience with God, and what I read from his Holy Book. I sometimes think that he is more interested in our discomfort than in our comfort.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The Genesis of life is experience.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.

~ Margaret Atwood

A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and discolored skin tell not of old age, but of a good life. These books, unlike so many others, were not just read, but revisited, loved, and experienced.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

If I have learned one thing from experience, it is this: never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

~ Eleanor Catton

Life is full of positive and negative experiences, but the quality of one's life will always depend on the ones that dominate one's focus the most.

~ Hafiz

To get what you want, you better learn from the experience.

~ Andrea Goeglein

Experience-taking changes us by allowing us to merge our own lives with those of the characters we read about. It doesn’t happen all the time. It only occurs when people are able, in a sense, to forget about themselves and their own self-concept and self-identity while reading.You have to be able to take yourself out of the picture, and really lose yourself in the book in order to have this authentic experience of taking on a character’s identity.

~ Lisa Libby

It's been well-thumbed, at least triple-read, there's that smell the fat orange-spine Penguins get when their pages have yellowed and the book bulges, basically the smell of complex humanity, sort of sweat and salt and endeavour. Like all the fat orange Penguins, it gets fatter with reading, which it should, because in a way the more you read it the bigger your own experience of the world gets, the fatter your soul.

~ Niall Williams

He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones.

~ S.a. Tawks

Some of the most painful and debilitating injuries are the hardest to prove.

~ Eric Schlosser

Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.

~ Siri Hustvedt

I inhale and a zephyr enters my body. The earth tilts its axis, changing my view of the heavens. Two clouds appear in the shape of trumpets. They part and rays of sunlight burst in. The sunlight speaks, 'Seek a new experience.

~ Lawren Leo

Experience gives meaning to knowledge.

~ Paul Bamikole

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

~ John Templeton

Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing.

~ Anaïs Nin

A lot of people live miserably not because their lives are worse than others, but because their repeated negative interpretations of their experiences bring greater pain to their minds than their physical problems.

~ Hafiz

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

~ Yi-Fu Tuan

What doesn't kill us makes a good story.

~ Marty Rubin

She had a hundred precocious ideas, and some were good and true, but they could never be hers until she found them alone, for ideas are but words unless they are sown in experience.

~ Wade Davis

What experience cannot teach you now, mentors and books can foretell! To take the lead in whatever you do, be willing to learn and educate yourself regularly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue.

~ Fanny Kelly

I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.

~ Samuel Ha-Nagid

...each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

~ Mark Batterson

Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.

~ Robert Tew

Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.

~ Gina Greenlee

The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.

~ Adyashanti

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

~ William Barrett

The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.

~ Murad S. Shah

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

~ Mark Nepo

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.

~ Adam Gopnik

Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead!

~ Nelson M. Lubao

Don't be afraid to live. And hold onto the people you love.

~ Nyrae Dawn