“Experience, though no authority were in this world, is right enough for me.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
Lived ExperienceConfidence
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.
“Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art.”
Miguel de Cervantes
FriendsCharacter
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
Thomas Fuller
PracticeMastery
“No young man believes he shall ever die.”
William Hazlitt
YouthMortality
“The best prophet of the future is the past.”
Lord Byron
HistoryFuture
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
William James
BeliefLife
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
GrowthDirection
“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more - the feeling that I could last for ever.”
Joseph Conrad
YouthNostalgia
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
Aeschylus
MemoryWisdom
“Man proposes, but God disposes.”
Thomas à Kempis
PlansFaith
“Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.”
Aesop
FameWisdom
“Counsel without help is useless.”
Aesop
AdviceAction
“Once bitten, twice shy.”
Traditional Proverb
CautionLessons
“Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen.”
The Bible (Deuteronomy 4:9)
RememberingLessons
“I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.”
The Bible (Psalm 77:11)
RememberingGratitude
“This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”
The Bible (Lamentations 3:21)
HopeMemory
“The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.”
The Bible (1 Samuel 17:37)
Past VictoriesConfidence
“Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you.”
The Bible (Joshua 23:14)
FaithfulnessLooking Back
“Those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”
The Bible (Hebrews 5:14)
PracticeDiscernment
“Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.”
The Bible (Psalm 119:67)
HardshipGrowth
“My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction.”
The Bible (Proverbs 3:11)
CorrectionPatience
“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:12)
CautionWisdom
“Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.”
The Bible (Job 28:28)
WisdomUnderstanding
“Though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more.”
The Bible (Isaiah 30:20)
AdversityTeachers
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 12:13)
Life LessonsWisdom