Experience Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

113 Experience Quotes
“Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.”
Dan Stanford Quotes
“Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.”
Charlie Parker Quotes
“What I conclude is that religion has nothing to do with experience or reason but with deep and irrational needs”
Richard Taylor Quotes
“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”
Bob Packwood Quotes
“There's no substitute for experience”
Proverb Quotes
“Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.”
Chinese Proverbs Quotes
“We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.”
Sasha Azevedo Quotes
“One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is”
Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”
Denis Waitley Quotes
“Suffering brings experience.”
Aeschylus Quotes
Source: Agamemnon (185)
“Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,--but we cannot die, Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,-- Lo, all things can be borne!”
Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy") Quotes
Source: Endurance
“By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.”
Roger Ascham Quotes
Source: Schoolmaster
“It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.”
Roger Ascham Quotes
Source: Schoolmaster
“Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
“Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes
Source: The Corsair (canto I, st. 1)
“A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII, last st.)
“To show the world what long experience gains, Requires not courage, though it calls for pains; But at life's outset to inform mankind Is a bold effort of a valiant mind.”
George Crabbe Quotes
Source: The Borough (letter VII, l. 47)
“In her experience all her friends relied, Heaven was her help and nature was her guide.”
George Crabbe Quotes
Source: Parish Register (pt. III)
“Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. [It., Tu proverai si come sa di sale Lo pane altrui, e com e duro calle Lo scendere e'l salir per l'altrui scale.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Paradiso (XVII, 58)
“Only so much do I know, as I have lived.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Source: Oration--The American Scholar
“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects, Society in Italy in the Last Days of the Roman Republic
“Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Education
“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Party Politics
“Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.”
Matthew Green Quotes
Source: The Spleen (l. 312)
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
Patrick Henry Quotes
Source: in a speech at the Virginia Convention