The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection which is the highest. The second is limitation which is the easiest. The third is experience which is the bitterest.

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

Fame will go by and so long I've had you fame. If it goes by I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience but that's not where I live.

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

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Good judgment comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

If history repeats itself and the unexpected always happens how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

Never never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The more connections you and your lover make not just between your bodies but between your minds your hearts and your souls the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship and the more real moments you will experience together.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.