“Disaster is virtue's opportunity.”
Seneca
AdversityOpportunity
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.
“That which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.”
Marcus Aurelius
ObstaclesGrowth
“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.”
Publilius Syrus
ChallengesLeadership
“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
Horace
AdversityTalent
“There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distil it out.”
William Shakespeare
Silver LiningsWisdom
“Past and to come seems best; things present worst.”
William Shakespeare
PerspectiveHuman Nature
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
William Shakespeare
HopeHard Times
“I stumbled when I saw.”
William Shakespeare
LessonsHindsight
“Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.”
William Shakespeare
AgeWisdom
“Yes, I have gained my experience. - And your experience makes you sad.”
William Shakespeare
ExperienceFunny
“Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoMoving On
“O benefit of ill! now I find true that better is by evil still made better.”
William Shakespeare
GrowthAdversity
“Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.”
Michel de Montaigne
Living WellWisdom
“Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer provide bad examples.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
AdviceFunny
“We arrive as novices at each age of our life, and often lack experience despite the number of our years.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
AgingHumility
“Example is always more efficacious than precept.”
Samuel Johnson
ExampleTeaching
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
Alexander Pope
LearningHumility
“'Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.”
Benjamin Franklin
HindsightWisdom
“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
StrengthGrowth
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
GenerationsFunny
“Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses.”
John Keats
Lived ExperienceTruth
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”
Charles Dickens
SufferingUnderstanding
“A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
GrowthIdeas
“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
AgeWisdom
“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”
William James
WisdomPerspective