Experience
The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
- Brown, Les
- Brown, Les
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold Macmillan
- Harold Macmillan
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
- George Bernard Shaw
By far the best proof is experience.
- Sir Francis Bacon
- Sir Francis Bacon
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
- Oscar Levant
- Oscar Levant
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
- Sacha Guitry
- Sacha Guitry
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
- Mumford, Lewis
- Mumford, Lewis
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
- Jimmy Connors
- Jimmy Connors
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
- Minna Thomas Antrim
- Minna Thomas Antrim
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
- Addison, Joseph
- Addison, Joseph
There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude
- Jacob Braude
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
- Denis Waitley
A proverb is the child of experience.
- Proverb, English
- Proverb, English
People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
- Santayana, George
- Santayana, George
Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
- Butterworth, Eric
- Butterworth, Eric
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
- Peter De Vries
- Peter De Vries
You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
- Anderson, Greg
- Anderson, Greg


















