Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

- Michael Korda

The person who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a person who hasn't.

- Mark Twain

We can travel a long way and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. it is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

- Sharon Salzberg

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

- Talmud

If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

The value of another's experience is to give us hope, not to tell us how or whether to proceed.

- Peter Block

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

- Heinrich Heine

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn't more complicated than that.

- Sylvia Boorstein

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

- Judy Collins

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

- Immanuel Kant

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

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

- Angela Carter

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

- Dag Hammarskjold

Religion is a pilgrimage through ages of hard experience in quest of the good society.

- A. Eustace Haydon

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

- William Osler

We can only learn to love by loving.

- Iris Murdoch



Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

- Henry Reed



Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

- Anne Frank



We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

- Samuel Smiles



Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

- Benjamin Franklin



I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.

- Robert Fulghum



Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

- Rita Mae Brown



Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.

- Mary Catherine Bateson



One faces the future with one's past.

- Pearl S. Buck



Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

- Felix Adler



The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.

- Francis Bacon



Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.

- Barbara Tuchman



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.

- Edward Gibbon



Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

- Pete Seeger



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



There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

- Edward Abbey



You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

- Ethel Barrymore



Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

- John Dewey



These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

- Vernon Cooper



Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

- Edith Wharton



Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

- Oscar Wilde



It is very difficult and expensive to undo after you are married the things that your mother and father did to you while you were putting your first six birthdays behind you.

- Bureau of Social Hygiene study, 1928