Wise and Inspirational Words Collection

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. Frank McCourt The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler The years teach much which the days never know. Ralph Waldo Emerson There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. Josh Billings There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. Amy Grant We are...

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Joseph Roux People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. M. Scott Peck Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation. John Ruskin Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. W. C. Fields Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Tony Robbins The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Alice Walker The key to education is the experience of beauty. Friedrich...

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. Albert Bandura My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn. Ally Sheedy My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones. Agnetha Faltskog Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. Walter Pater Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost. William Ellery Channing One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell Only t...

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. Clarence Day It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. John Steinbeck It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. Walter Wriston Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. Samuel Butler Life is the art of drawing without an...

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. Fred Brooks Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams 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 I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum I don't b...

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. Benjamin Disraeli Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. C. S. Lewis Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph Bourne

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones 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. E. Housman Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. Thomas Jefferson Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Heinrich Heine Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim Experience is a great teacher. John Legend Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde Experience is simply t...

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller Color is an intense experience on its own. Jim Hodges Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Flannery O'Connor Deep experience is never peaceful. Henry James Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra Every moment is an experience. Jake Roberts Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. Andre Gide Every...

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 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. Wallis Simpson Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time. Bernard Baruch All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry Adams All that I know I learned after I was thirty. Georges Clemenceau An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. Don Marquis Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission t...