“Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.”
Source: Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, March 19, 1869
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Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
Source: Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
“Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.”
Source: Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects
“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”
Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Source: The Politics of Experience
Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays
“I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.”
Source: The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature
Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot
“Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us.”
Source: Table-talk
“Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.”
Source: Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually
Source: Table talk
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!”
Source: The Collected Writings
“Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.”
Source: The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
Source: A Window Over the Sink
“Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.”
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world
Source: The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Poetical works. Dramas. The vicar of Wakefield
“Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.”
Source: Imaginary conversations of Greeks and Romans
Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.”
Source: Proust
“History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.”
Source: On photography
Source: The Poems
“To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.”
Source: The Poems
“Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.”
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
Source: A return to love: reflections on the principles of
Source: The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume One: Born in Tibet; Meditation in Action; Mudra; Selected Writings
“We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.”