Quotes on Experience

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?