Experience Quotes and Sayings

“Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.” ~Bergen Evens

“You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. “~Albert Camus

“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires.”~Abigail Van Buren

“All life is an experiment.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune” ~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky the Irish Historian

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.”~ Pete Seeger

“Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.”~ Benjamin Franklin

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

“By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. “~Roger Ascham

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

“A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go though the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.”~ Mildred White Struven

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”~Oscar Wilde

“Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.”~ Richard David Bach