You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.[Vanité du mot expérience. L’expérience n’est pas expérimentale. On ne la provoque pas.]
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.[La sapietia è figliola della sperietia.]
Our character is determined more by the absence of certain experiences than by the experiences we have undergone.[Unser Charakter wird noch mehr durch den Mangel gewisser Erlebnisse, als durch Das, was man erlebt, bestimmt.]
You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.
We’ve all felt like an outsider at times. It’s a very human experience.
Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Time heals, and experience teaches that the secret of happiness is in service to others.
There are no experiences so disastrous that thoughtful men cannot derive some profit from them, nor so happy that the thoughtless cannot use them to their harm.[Il n’y a point d’accidents si malheureux dont les habiles gens ne tirent quelque avantage, ni de si heureux que les imprudents ne puissent tourner à leur préjudice.]
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
One of the finest beliefs I developed years ago that helped me to enjoy all of my life experience was the idea that there are no bad experiences, that no matter what I go through in life – whether it’s a challenging experience or a pleasurable one – every experience provides me something of value if I look for it.
