Enthusiasm – a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. – Ambrose Bierce
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. – Vernon Law
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. – Harry S. Truman
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. – Ansel Adams
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. – Denis Waitley
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. – M. Scott Peck
And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree. – Donald Norman
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship. – Barbara de Angelis
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. – William Blake
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. – Barbara de Angelis
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? – George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. – Saint Teresa of Avila
The reward of suffering is experience. – Harry S. Truman
I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness. – Marianne Williamson
