Browsing Topic Best Experience Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

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.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Don’t focus on what’s wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.

I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

That reality is ‘independent’ means that there is something in every experience that escapes our arbitrary control. If it be a sensible experience it coerces our attention; if a sequence, we cannot invert it; if we compare two terms we can come to only one result. There is a push, an urgency, within our very experience, against which we are on the whole powerless, and which drives us in a direction that is the destiny of our belief.

One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.