Experience Teaches Us Quotes

#1. 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

#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. Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Paulo Freire

#5. Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

Mark Twain

#6. 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

#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 us when to wait and when to move forward.

Janette Oke

#9. Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

Olive Schreiner

#10. 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

#11. The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

Melvin Jules Bukiet

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

Moliere

#18. Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Lev S. Vygotsky

#19. Experience on a former occasion teaches us not to be too sanguine in such hopes. It

Charles Eliot

#20. Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

Mason Cooley

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. The experience of life teaches us that being like someone in love is more real, because everything is uncertain.

Abbas Kiarostami

#24. Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

Judy Collins

#25. 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

#26. Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.

Sam Hamill

#27. And others' follies teach us not,
Nor much their wisdom teaches,
And most, of sterling worth, is what
Our own experience preaches.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#28. I believe that every experience, every wrong decision, teaches us something. That's why we shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes.

Tess Gerritsen

#29. Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.

David Dreman

#30. I really believe that things happen for reasons. While we're going through it, we don't know why, but somewhere down the road we'll understand. Each experience in life teaches us something; it helps us grow and be a better person.

Melissa A. Hanson

#31. Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Louis D. Brandeis

#32. We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches.

Dean Koontz

#33. All the experience the Chinese people have accumulated through several decades teaches us to enforce the people's democratic dictatorship, that is, to deprive the reactionaries of the right to speak and let the people alone have that right.

Mao Zedong

#34. America'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 Biden