E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction.
- Bethany”
Source: Styxx
“Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
Source: Jefferson: Political Writings
“Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.”
Source: Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson
“Experience,’ he had been wont to say—being rather addicted, I gather, to the making of epigrammatic formulæ—‘is the hornbook of fools, unnecessary for the practical purposes of life to the man of wit.”
Source: Bellarion
“Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.”
Source: In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow
“Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.”
“Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.”
“Experience indicates that the more severe and/or ritualistic the abuse suffered as a child, the more fragmented is the adult patient's personality and thinking. Victims of satanic abuse are likely to exhibit polyfragmented atypical dissociative disorder (ADD) (dissociative disorder NOS) or polyfragmented MPD. Some victims of incest may not exhibit any exaggerated or special dissociative psychopathology.”
Source: Incest-Related Syndromes of Adult Psychopathology
“Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.”
Source: Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”
“Experience is a collection of our successes and failures.”
“Experience is a dear teacher but he delivers th' goods.”
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
“Experience is a form of paralysis.”
“Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.”
“Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.”
Source: The church in the world: collected essays
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
“Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.”
“Experience is a great spoiler of pleasures.”
“Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.”
“Experience is a great teacher.”
“Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment.”
“Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.”
“Experience is a harsh teacher but its lessons get tattooed into scars under our skin. Adversity is a master at disguises.”
“Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: The letters of George Santayana. 1933-1936. Vol. 5. Book 5
“Experience is a necessary education.”
“Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.”
“Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.”
“Experience is a question about instinct about life. I have got it. Tuppy hasn't. Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes. That is all.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.”
Source: The Collected Works
“Experience is a sacred education.”
“Experience is a safe guide.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude, in Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.”
Source: Speech of Wendell Phillips in vindication of the course pursued by the American Abolitionists
“Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.”
“Experience is a teacher that knows no favorites.”
Source: The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity
“Experience is a thorough teacher.”
Source: Cousin Maude and Rosamond
“Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.”
Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:
“Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.”
Source: Grave Secrets
“Experience is a wonderful gem that should be cherished and shared!”
“Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.”
“Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song.”
“Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“Experience is always changing, like the movement of clouds against the sky. Realization—the stable awareness of the true nature of your mind—is like the sky itself, an unchanging background against which shifting experience occur.”
Source: The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness
“Experience is always larger than language.”
“Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.”
Source: Your Magic Power to be Rich!
“Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.”
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things