Experience
Definition: Practical contact with and observation of facts or events. Encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence).
Number of Quotes: 47
My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a
form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
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
When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile
experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.
Douglas Adams
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a
conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Franklin P. Adams
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Henry Adams
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Anonymous
Experience is a great teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Whenever you fall, pick up something.
Oswald Avery
Glass is, in general, the enemy of secrets. It is also the enemy of possession.
Experience and Poverty
Walter Benjamin
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself - in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Brown
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience,
while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute for intelligence.
Lyman Bryson
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold Geneen
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly
ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Failure is a learning experience. It can be a gravestone or a stepping stone.
Bud Hadfield
An expert is a man who knows some of the worst errors that can be made in the subject in question and who therefore understands how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg
Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think
and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience ... I would hope going forward that the public and the media
will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world.
Paris Hilton
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge
spider-web ... suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they
just saw something ... That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
What did it for me? It wasn't my education or experience. It was my passion.
Andrea Jung
Mistakes are, after all, the foundation of truth, and if a man does not know what
a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced ... even a proverb is no proverb till your life has illustrated it.
John Keats
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experiences of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the
ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.
Miriam Makeba
The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing.
André Maurois
I treat everything as a learning experience; then you become detached from the result and more interested in the experience itself.
Lorraine Moller
Experience! Wise men do not need it.
Experience! Idiots do not heed it.
Ogden Nash
Music is your own experience, your 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
Physicians acquire their knowledge from our dangers, making experiments at the cost of our lives.
Pliny
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say
to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a
hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain
We learned from everybody else's book and added a few pages of our own.
Sam Walton
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
Billy Wilder
Hindsight gives everyone perfect vision.
Chris Wright
Jugment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston
They have this wonderful process of learning from direct experience called After Action Review,
in which everyone
who was involved sits down and the three questions are: What happened? Why do you think it happened? And what can we learn from
it? If you were ... able to get those three questions as part of your process, you could become a learning organization.
Walter Wriston
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