Experience Quotes

"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing." ~ Lord Arthur Savile's Crime by Oscar Wilde "There is no such thing as unmixed evil. A man who loses his money gains, at least, experience, and sometimes something better." ~ The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli "Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." ~ The Ambassadors by Henry James A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. ~ The Professor at the Breakfast Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience. ~ The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." ~ Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down. ~ The Call of the Wild by Jack London