Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

The actor cannot afford to look only to his own life for all his material nor pull strictly from his own experience to find his acting choices and feelings.
Stella Adler

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.
Thomas Huxley

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
Sonia Sotomayor

All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.
Sonia Sotomayor

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
Keanu Reeves

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
Bob Barker

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.
Keanu Reeves

I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French

In my experience, problems most frequently arise from those who report for television, with little field experience in your area but an insatiable appetite for a sound bite.
Alvin Adams

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Kinky Friedman