30 Inspiring Quotes On Experience

Navigating through life, we often rely on the wisdom gained from experiences—both our own and those shared by others. Experiences shape who we are, influencing our decisions, inspiring growth, and offering lessons that transcend time and circumstance. Whether it's the first step into a new journey, the triumph over challenges, or the quiet reflection on past endeavors, each moment holds the power to teach and transform. In this collection, we delve into a selection of inspiring quotes that encapsulate the essence of experience, capturing the profound insights and timeless truths that encourage us, challenge us, and ultimately guide us toward greater understanding and fulfillment. Join us as we explore these pearls of wisdom and find resonance with the experiences that define our lives.

1. “You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.” - Mary Tyler Moore

2. “In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.” - Karl Rahner

3. “The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.” - Chinua Achebe

4. “Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.” - Kay Redfield Jamison

5. “Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.” - Malcolm Gladwell

6. “Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.” - Michael Joseph Oakeshott

7. “We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.” - George Eliot

8. “In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.” - May Sarton

9. “The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.” - Haruki Murakami

10. “Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.” - Thomas Hardy

11. “All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.” - Edward Gibbon

12. “If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.” - Mikhail S. Gorbachev

13. “That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.” - Howard Zinn

14. “...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.” - Charles Yu

15. “In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.” - Charles S. Peirce

16. “Good judgment comes from bad experience. Unfortunately, most of that comes from bad judgment.- Tara Daniels -” - Jill Shalvis

17. “Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.” - Jill Shalvis

18. “Adventrue rewrites the routine of our lives and wakes us sharply from the comforts of the familiar. It allows us to see how vast the expanse of our experience. Our ability to grow is no longer linear but becomes unrestricted to any direction we wish to run.” - Josh Gates

19. “True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.” - Tiffany Madison

20. “Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.” - Denis Waitley

21. “As for me...I'm fine. I have bad dreams, but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I smoke a little dope. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scares.I like the way that sounds.I carry a lot of scares.” - Alex Garland

22. “...the answer is not in the damn blank page - it's in the days or years before and you have to dredge it up - exhume the past again ...” - John Geddes

23. “This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.” - Michael David Lukas

24. “You have to be silent, but ready” - Rosen Topuzov

25. “I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it.” - Myles Horton

26. “Through adversity, not only are we given an opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us.” - Rachael Bermingham

27. “Knowing that you are perfect as you are does not mean you will no longer grow. It means that everything you've experienced up to this moment has made you who you are, and that is perfection. Tomorrow, you will be an even more perfect version of yourself.” - Julie-Anne

28. “Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.” - Erin McKean

29. “If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while being chronically incapable of learning from experience.” - john gray

30. “Can you hold happiness? Can you drink it? Can you taste it? Can you touch it? Of course not, it is immaterial. So, stop looking for it in the material world! Happiness is experienced within; when we bridge the gap between what we want to experience and how we choose to behave.” - Steve Maraboli