No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift

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

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

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
Saint Augustine

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
William Osler

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
Pope John Paul II

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

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.
Audrey Hepburn

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
T. S. Eliot

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

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

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