Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

All experience is subjective.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

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

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

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

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

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

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.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

Experience is a great teacher.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'

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

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

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

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Adventure is worthwhile.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Every moment is an experience.

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

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I didn't think; I experimented.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

The only source of knowledge is experience.