“That which does not kill me makes me stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
ResilienceStrength
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.
“The man who has lived longest is not the man who has counted most years, but he who has most truly felt life.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Living FullyLife
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Edmund Burke
FutureChange
“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”
Patrick Henry
GuidanceHistory
“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.”
Mark Twain
MemoryFunny
“A Wounded Deer - leaps highest.”
Emily Dickinson
ResiliencePain
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore
PerspectiveUnderstanding
“Character is simply habit long continued.”
Plutarch
CharacterHabits
“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”
John Milton
StruggleHope
“Prevention is better than cure.”
Desiderius Erasmus
PreventionWisdom
“Experience is the father of wisdom, and memory the mother.”
Thomas Fuller
WisdomMemory
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Aesop
Human NatureLessons
“Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.”
The Bible (Job 5:17)
CorrectionFaith
“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.”
The Bible (Lamentations 3:27)
YouthHardship
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.”
The Bible (Hebrews 12:11)
DisciplineGrowth
“Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you.”
The Bible (1 Peter 4:12)
TrialsFaith
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.”
The Bible (Proverbs 26:11)
Repeating MistakesFoolishness
“A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.”
The Bible (Proverbs 27:12)
PrudenceForesight
“Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.”
The Bible (Isaiah 48:10)
AdversityRefinement
“I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed.”
The Bible (Philippians 4:12)
Ups And DownsContentment
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
HistoryPatterns
“For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers.”
The Bible (Job 8:8)
HistoryLearning
“A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.”
The Bible (Proverbs 17:10)
FeedbackWisdom
“Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 10:11)
Learning From OthersHistory
“For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.”
The Bible (Psalm 66:10)
TrialsRefinement