Experience Quotes

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened ambition inspired and success achieved.

All experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.

Each year millions of skiers come to Colorado to experience its superb emergency medical facilities.

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

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them, or one that can literally save their lives.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'