Experience Quotes

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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Lived, Understood

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Source

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

God, Learn, Teachers

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes, Give, Name

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

Learn, Cat, Tail

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Few, Virtues, Vices

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Spiritual, Human, Beings

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Character, Through

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.
Sai Baba

Spiritual, Different, Through

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Mind, Old, Stretched

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger

Education, Between, Read

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Human, Others, Learn

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Attitude, Excellence, Skill

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner

Life, Art, Drawing

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson

Life, Woman, Challenge

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
Queen Latifah

Learning, Human, Regret

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus

Cannot, Create, Undergo

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Everything, Before, Said

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus

Love, Exhausted, Reverence

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats

Nothing, Real, Becomes

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin

Time, Nothing, Waste

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren

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