Quotes about Experience
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
— Ernest Hemingway
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
— Euripides
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
— Oscar Wilde
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain de Botton
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
— Leland Ryken
One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.
— RC Sproul
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
— Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
— Elbert Hubbard
A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
We can lead others only as far along the road as we ourselves have traveled. merely pointing the way is not enough. If we are not walking, then no one can be following, and ware not leading anyone.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Seek advice, but make sure it's from someone who has successfully handled mistakes or adversities.
— John Maxwell