46 Best Experience Quotes To Find Valuable Things

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Get here the list of some best inspirational quotes about the experience that will motivate you to learn from past events.

Best Quotes About Experience

1. “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote

2. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

3. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” ― Roy T. Bennett

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4. “We learn from failure, not from success!” ― Bram Stoker

5. “No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.” ― Veronica Roth

6. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.” ― Randy Pausch

7. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” ― Eckhart Tolle

8. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” ― Rita Mae Brown

9. “Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” ― John Keats

10. “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” ― Aldous Huxley

11. “Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.” ― Roy T. Bennett

12. “A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.” ― Lemony Snicket

13. “We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey

14. “Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” ― Oscar Wilde

15. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience” ― Leonardo da Vinci

Famous Experience Quotes

16. “Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.” ― Nicholas Sparks

17. “Experience is the best teacher.” ― Penelope Douglas

18. “You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.” ― Laurie Faria Stolarz

19. “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.” ― Eckhart Tolle

20. “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” ― John Dewey

21. “Good judgment comes from experience, and experience – well, that comes from poor judgment.” ― A.A.Milne

22. “The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.” ― Ben Okri

23. “Experience is not worth the getting. It’s not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you–it’s a wall that an active you runs up against.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

24. “Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.” ― Alfred North Whitehead

25. “Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it” ― John Keats

26. “Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.” ― Thomas Jefferson

27. “Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices–just recognize them.” ― Edward R. Murrow

28. “Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” ― Auguste Rodin

29. “Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.” ― Malcolm Gladwell

30. “No one will protect what they don’t care about; and no one will care about what they have never experiened” ― David Attenborough

Inspirational Quotes About Experience

31. “When we want mood experiences, we go to concerts or museums. When we want meaningful emotional experience, we go to the storyteller.” ― Robert McKee

32. “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.” ― Benjamin Franklin

33. “Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” ― Immanuel Kant

34. “Experience is more important than knowledge.” ― Santosh Kalwar

35. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.” ― Jill Shalvis

36. “Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.” ― C.S. Lewis

37. “The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal

38. “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

39. “Experience is a question of instinct about life.” ― Oscar Wilde

40. “The word ‘experienced’ often refers to someone who’s gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.” ― Laurence Gonzales

41. “Perception is reality to the one in the experience.” ― Danielle Bernock

42. “Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.” ― Bauvard

43. “The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.” ― Sharon Salzberg

44. “Take no one’s word for anything, including mine – but trust your experience.” ― James Baldwin

45. “I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.” ― Martha Washington

46. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ― Oprah Winfrey