Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Happiness cannot be traveled to owned earned worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

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.

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.

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

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.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

Not the fruit of experience but experience itself is the end.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

Color is an intense experience on its own.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time you know.

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

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

All experience is an arch to build upon.

Experience comprises illusions lost rather than wisdom gained.

Experience is a great teacher.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

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.