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Experience Quotes That Will Help You Chalk Up To Experience

Anything that involves mastering or gaining knowledge on a subject or event is considered as an experience. We talk about experiences day in and day out. Experience comes to us in many ways, like work experiences, shopping experiences, dining experiences, travelling experiences, life experiences etc and then we share these experiences with our kith and kin. Each experience, delightful or unwelcomed, has something or the other to teach. We talk about experiences, we learn from them, and we move on to create some more. Undoubtedly, through all the ups and downs of life, all the experiences we have along the journey carry a lesson that helps us grow as a person. Many eminent personalities, motivational speakers and leaders have shared their thoughts, opinions, viewpoints and experiences which are used as quotable quotes and sayings and are quoted widely. We have rounded some popular, inspiring, motivational and famous quotes and thoughts on Experience that will help you enjoy every moment and live for today.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Moore
I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

William Shakespeare
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Oscar Wilde
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Niccolò Machiavelli
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Eleanor Roosevelt
True forgiveness is when you can say,

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Oprah Winfrey
The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby
The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Orhan Pamuk
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

Anthony Burgess
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

C. S. Lewis
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

August Wilson
Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

August Wilson
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

Jack Kerouac
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Paulo Coelho
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen Keller
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown
I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

August Wilson
Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone - a memory.

David Byrne
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Isadora Duncan
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Mark Twain
In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Thor Heyerdahl

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

Margaret Atwood
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Jim Morrison
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

Isadora Duncan

I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I was 12 - there was a lot of sharing, and a lot of talking, and a lot of asking how I am. They thought we were dating, and I was sort of hoping to meet their brothers.

Anderson Cooper
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

E. E. Cummings
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Woody Allen

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

Galileo Galilei
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

Steven Spielberg
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Words without experience are meaningless.

Words without experience are meaningless.

Vladimir Nabokov
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

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

Emily Dickinson
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

Angela Carter
You can't create experience, you undergo it.

You can't create experience, you undergo it.

Albert Camus
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

George Carlin
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.

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
The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Michael Palin

Act as if! Act as if you're a wealthy man, rich already, and then you'll surely become rich. Act as if you have unmatched confidence and then people will surely have confidence in you. Act as if you have unmatched experience and then people will follow your advice. And act as if you are already a tremendous success, and as sure as I stand here today - you will become successful.

Jordan Belfort
For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?

For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?

Haruki Murakami
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

Rick Warren
My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.

Steven Spielberg
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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

Abraham Lincoln
It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby

Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great; he is free from the experience of hostility; he is a poet, and most like an angel.

Leonard Bernstein
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

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

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

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

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
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.

Irvine Welsh

All right, let's get to work again!-This is the spirit of people of genuine substance. Those who avoid hard work or neglect the things they have to do, who just while away their time, eating, sleeping, playing, watching television-such individuals will never experience true happiness, satisfaction or joy.

Daisaku Ikeda
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

Richard Dawkins
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

Don DeLillo
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

Ernest Hemingway
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

William Faulkner
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

James Joyce
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

Daisaku Ikeda
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Christopher Hitchens
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

Ben Okri

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.

W. H. Auden
Experience teaches only the teachable.

Experience teaches only the teachable.

Aldous Huxley
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.

Vladimir Nabokov
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

George Bernard Shaw
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Ansel Adams
Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Hillary Clinton
We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

John Dewey
The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Daisaku Ikeda
The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Bruce Springsteen
Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Robert F. Kennedy
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage
I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

I can cook, but I also want everything to look beautiful on the plate - then I get upset when people eat it. Everyone just tears through it, and that makes me sad. It's not a rewarding experience for me to cook.

Megan Fox
I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

I think journaling is an important, intrinsic experience, and a lot of us don't spend enough time on it.

Goldie Hawn
We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something.

Orson Scott Card
In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

Nas
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

Deepak Chopra
Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Sarah Ban Breathnach
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

Benjamin Lincoln
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Vincent van Gogh
Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I'd become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

David Bowie
Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

Jason Bateman
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Self dedication is a spiritual experience.

Cesar Chavez
It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Vincent van Gogh
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger, portion of truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Edgar Allan Poe
I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.

I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience.

Claire Danes

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard.

Bruce Springsteen
It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Sharon Stone
The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.

Natalie Dormer
To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

Jason Bateman
A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

A positive frame of mind will definitely enhance your travelling experience. If I'm not in a positive frame of mind then the whole thing definitely becomes more of a challenge for me.

Andrea Bocelli
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Bruce Springsteen

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Colin Powell
I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.

Sandra Bullock
I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

I feel like every time a door is opened by science, suddenly there are a hundred doors that need to get opened. That's what makes it an everlasting, interesting experience to go through.

Arnold Vinick
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

T S Eliot
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

A. A. Milne
I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

I think most people have that out of body experience when they win the Oscar.

Sandra Bullock
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams