Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius CaesarAgainst my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.
Bertrand RussellAll theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel JohnsonExperience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
George WashingtonTo be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William JamesIf you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.
Jerry SeinfeldMy relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
Edmund HillaryGrowing up I didn’t watch movies.
Denzel WashingtonI have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.
Tom BradyAmerica’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe BidenFind what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.
Gordon RamsayI’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
Muhammad AliTwo things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise PascalExperience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. ChestertonYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. RowlingExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel KantYou don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.
Jerry SeinfeldSpeed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyIt gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert EinsteinOlder and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.
Jimmy BuffettOld age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad AliCensorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Noam ChomskyMeeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston ChurchillThe essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale CarnegieThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnYour true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
Aldous HuxleyI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark TwainThe statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his nation’s experience and his vision.
Henry KissingerI have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.
Noam ChomskyFlying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia EarhartExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinIt put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark TwainI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouEight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.
Terry PratchettEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonAll partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.
Alice WalkerAdventure is worthwhile in itself.
Amelia EarhartI don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.
Greta ThunbergAnyone who’s a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: ‚Is it good? Does it give pleasure?‘
Anthony BourdainI have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.
Benjamin FranklinIf money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry FordEarly on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiAmour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
Aldous HuxleyWhen you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
Ernest HemingwayThe use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel JohnsonExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeThe best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.
Ray BradburyMore people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.
Vivienne WestwoodIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert HubbardGod cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
Mahatma GandhiExperience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da VinciActing is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.
Jean-Paul SartreSelf-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
Baruch SpinozaThe experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice WalkerKids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.
Michelle ObamaIt is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenOur experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.
Brian EnoWhoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘
Anne Frank