Top 98 Experience Teaches Quotes
#1. A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.
Caterina Fake
#2. I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz
#3. Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy
#4. If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.
Suzanne La Follette
#5. Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood
Paulo Freire
#6. Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
Mark Twain
#7. Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.
Milan Kundera
#8. Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements ... are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.
Alexander Hamilton
#10. Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.
Janette Oke
#11. Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.
Fr James Groenings
#12. Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.
Olive Schreiner
#13. Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.
John C. Maxwell
#14. Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.
Barry Moltz
#15. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#16. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
Michel De Montaigne
#17. There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
Joseph Addison
#18. Experience 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 Washington
#19. Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#20. Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#21. The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May
#22. Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#23. Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
Lev S. Vygotsky
#25. Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
Mason Cooley
#26. Experience teaches sense. You can't learn it in a college course.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.
Bob Dylan
#28. Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#29. In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Christopher Lasch
#30. Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences
Vincent De Paul
#31. The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#32. It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#34. Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.
Benjamin Graham
#35. My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.
David Dreman
#37. Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye,
particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Clifton Fadiman
#38. An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
#39. Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Anais Nin
#40. Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Louis D. Brandeis
#41. A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.
Caterina Fake
#42. This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves.
Chris Matakas
#43. Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
#44. I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Gottfried Leibniz
#45. Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy
#46. If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.
Suzanne La Follette
#47. Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood
Paulo Freire
#48. Kate Benson is an expert in applying NLP in the education sector. She is thoroughly organised, highly skilled and the love for what she teaches comes across in her presentations. I guarantee you will have a thoroughly enjoyable experience.
Richard Bandler
#49. When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who and what they became; you appreciate them better and you uphold the dignity of their integrity in high esteem!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#50. Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.
Mark Twain
#51. Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
Thomas Carlyle
#52. We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.
David Hume
#53. Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.
Milan Kundera
#54. Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements ... are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.
Alexander Hamilton
#56. The real working class, though they hate war and are immune to jingoism, are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.
George Orwell
#57. Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
Toba Beta
#58. Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.
Janette Oke
#59. Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth.
Fr James Groenings
#60. Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.
Olive Schreiner
#61. Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.
John C. Maxwell
#63. Only Experience Teaches You: You can't learn skiing by watching videos. They might help but you still need to find a place with snow, put your skis on, and thrust yourself down the mountain.
Barry Moltz
#64. Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#65. Having a child is an experience that teaches a person how important to prioritize the happiness of another person.Whatever you do, even whatever you are, is an example for him . In fact, that little being who depends on you so much , makes you also to have a huge dependence on him.
Neymar
#66. Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
Michel De Montaigne
#67. My experience has confirmed the wisdom of so much of what the Bible teaches.
Benjamin Carson
#68. Through service to others, we develop a Christlike love and we experience joy. Service teaches patience and long-suffering as well as gentleness, goodness, and faith.
Merrill J. Bateman
#69. Experience by itself teaches nothing ... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.
W. Edwards Deming
#70. The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.
Melvin Jules Bukiet
#71. I think all of our experience with (Iraqi President) Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there,.
Tony Blair
#72. There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
Joseph Addison
#73. Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
Charles Kettering
#74. All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson
#75. Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches.
Marty Rubin
#76. The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Joseph Stalin
#77. He teaches best,
Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
And knows their strength or weakness through his own.
Bayard Taylor
#78. Experience 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 Washington
#79. Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#80. This is the way we're taught early in our lives about how to interpret pain. When we experience pain, the way the people around us respond to it then teaches us to respond in a similar way.
John C. Parkin
#81. What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
#82. Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#83. You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.
George Cukor
#84. Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.
Moliere
#85. I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.
Larry Hagman
#86. Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.
Yogi Berra
#87. The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.
Elaine May
#88. Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.
Deepika Padukone
#89. It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true.
Idries Shah
#90. Instead of proclaiming the ideals, they educe what experience teaches, what the experience of all the centuries has taught, that the millions get no further than mediocrity.
Soren Kierkegaard
#91. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#93. Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them
Lev S. Vygotsky
#94. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It
Charles Eliot
#95. The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#97. If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
John Polkinghorne
#98. Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.
Nick Bantock
#99. Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.
H.L. Mencken
#100. Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
Mason Cooley
