“How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?”
Henry David Thoreau
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Experience Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · EXPERIENCE
Experience Quotes
Read 200 of the best experience quotes about learning from life, mistakes, wisdom and growth, from Shakespeare, Keats, Montaigne, Emerson and more.
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
Cost Of ExperienceWit
“Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.”
Thomas Carlyle
Hard LessonsLearning
“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.”
Benjamin Disraeli
ActionThinking
“We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”
William Hazlitt
MasteryPractice
“I am a part of all that I have met; yet all experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
GrowthAdventure
“Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”
William Wordsworth
HumilityWisdom
“Adversity is the first path to truth.”
Lord Byron
AdversityTruth
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”
Xunzi
PracticeLearning
“Happy is the man who learns from the misfortunes of others.”
Aesop
Learning From OthersWisdom
“My sufferings, disagreeable as they are, have been lessons to me.”
Herodotus
SufferingLessons
“Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves.”
Euripides
TravelEducation
“Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.”
Francis Bacon
YouthAge
“Experience is only half of experience.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
ReflectionLearning
“The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
AgingPerspective
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
Søren Kierkegaard
HindsightLife
“What experience and history teach is this - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
HistoryHuman Nature
“Yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:16)
WisdomKnowledge
“I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.”
The Bible (Genesis 30:27)
BlessingsFaith
“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:71)
HardshipGrowth
“Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”
The Bible (Hebrews 5:8)
SufferingLearning
“And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 8:2)
JourneyHumility
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
The Bible (Job 42:5)
First-Hand ExperienceFaith
“My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 12:9)
WeaknessStrength
“And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:13)
CuriosityWisdom