Experience Quotes

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Frederick Buechner

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

Francis Collins

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Francis Collins

This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.

Farrah Fawcett

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Federico Fellini

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

Foster Friess

The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.

Fred F. Fielding

The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.

Francesco Guicciardini

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Frank Grillo

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

Frederick the Great

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

Friedrich August von Hayek

I'm interested in all forms of performance, yet I think it's difficult to be as equally talented in all of them as they call for such different skills. At the moment, I still feel I'm learning and want as much experience and variety as possible.

Felicity Jones

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

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

Franklin P. Jones

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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

Frank McCourt

The Church is the safe place to be. I can safely believe everything the Church teaches. It will not harm me, and in fact it will equip me to grow and grow and have a better and better ability to experience that direct presence.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

I know by experience that Jesus Christ is a very powerful spirit - I know by experience that he is probably the most powerful spirit in the universe. I know by experience he is not a mere human being. He is something beyond that.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Florence Nightingale

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Friedrich Nietzsche