64+ Best Experience Quotes for a Fulfilling Life

Experience is the process through which conscious organisms perceive the world around them. Profoundly inspirational experience quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Experience Quotes

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. Mao Zedong

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. Victoria Holt

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. Laurie Faria Stolarz

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t. Pete Seeger

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. Paulo Coelho

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. Sai Baba

A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out. Lemony Snicket

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. Eckhart Tolle

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler

Experience the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. Ambrose Bierce

Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted. And experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer. Randy Pausch

Some days are just bad days, that’s all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that’s just the way it is! Dita Von Teese

A baby has brains, but it doesn’t know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.  L. Frank Baum

By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius

From all that I saw, and everywhere I wandered, I learned that time cannot be spent. It can only be squandered. Roman Payne

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. Eleanor Roosevelt

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. Deng Ming

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. Michelle Obama

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

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. Denis Waitley

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.  H. Jackson Brown Jr.

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is stormy or fair, whether I’m sick or in good health, whether I’m in a state of grace or disgrace. He comes to me where I live and loves me as I am. Brennan Manning

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. Frank Herbert

To be a champion, I think you have to see the big picture. It’s not about winning and losing it’s about every day hard work and about thriving on a challenge. It’s about embracing the pain that you’ll experience at the end of a race and not being afraid. I think people think too hard and get afraid of a certain challenge. Summer Sanders

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Robert Fulghum

Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional. Brian Greene

Some things cannot be taught they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey. Roy T. Bennett

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it. Taylor Swift

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin

Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Kallam Anji Reddy

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven’t done much today. Mikhail S. Gorbachev

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge

If at first you don’t succeed, you’re doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach. Steve Maraboli

When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best for yourself and for others. Cara Delevingne

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn’t conceive what it had never experienced. Graham Greene

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance,

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.  Henrik Ibsen

We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better. Jeff Bezos

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience. Albert Bandura

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. L. Lionel Kendrick

Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it. Steven Wright

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. Henry Ford

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future. Jim Rohn

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience. Randolph Bourne

The true mark of professionalism is the ability to respect everyone else for their styles and always find something positive in every dining experience and highlight it in your thoughts and words. Johnny Iuzzini

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. Sigmund Freud

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make. Donald Trump

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere. Queen Elizabeth II

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. Don Marquis

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have. Steve Jobs

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. Les Brown

Hope you enjoy reading this collection of powerful experience quotes and let me know in the comment section which one will become your daily mantra.