We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw – Experience, Learning
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain – Experience
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
Oprah Winfrey – Experience
I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey – Woman, Experience
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Cicero – Experience, Reason
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin – Experience, Innocents
Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.
James Baldwin – Experience
To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot – Experience, Nature
We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.
T.S. Eliot – Experience, Meaning
When a poet’s mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
T.S. Eliot – Poetry, Experience
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Experience and Travel
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford on life and experience – quote
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s life. It is no less than a denial of the soul
On Experience
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.
