Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
What is easy is seldom excellent.
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
All experience is subjective.
Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Sleep – the most beautiful experience in life – except drink.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A woman’s life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
