The 65 best phrases of experience
The phrases of experience Selected below offer different ways of understanding learning, everything that makes us progress personally from the fact of having gone through certain experiences. And it is that, well seen, time is the best teacher.
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The most inspiring experience phrases
During our lives we collect experiences that leave a mark on us, so that we always have something to rescue from each of them. All these situations have inspired many authors and have captured the lessons learned from their lives in various phrases of experience.
1. Good judgment is born from good intelligence and good intelligence derives from reason, taken from good rules; and good rules are daughters of good experience: common mother of all sciences and arts (Leonardo Da Vinci)
This reflection of Leonardo Da Vinci, reflects its connection with intelligence and creativity.
2. You cannot gain experience by doing experiments. You cannot create the experience. You must experience it (Albert Camus)
In spontaneous experiences, we end up endowing ourselves with elements that enrich our experience.
3. The intelligent person seeks the experience that he wishes to carry out (Aldous Huxley)
Since each one knows their wishes and aspirations, they try to take a journey that will provide them with as much learning and knowledge as possible.
4. I think that it can generally be said that there is no knowledge in man, which is not directly or immediately deduced from experience (Benito Jerónimo Feijoo)
Experience as the basis of human knowledge. A typically empiricist intellectual stance.
5. Experience is necessary to know anything (Seneca)
... since she gives us the information about the real world.
6. His experience, as so often happens, made him ignore the truth (Anatole France)
It often happens that we live so immersed in what we know that we believe that all things work that way.
7. A well-carried out experience is always positive (Gastón Bachelard)
A complex experience is always going to offer elements to rescue.
8. We will not consider any experience we may have miraculous, whatever it may be, if in advance we maintain a philosophy that excludes the supernatural (Clive Staples Lewis)
This phrase of experience brings us closer to the idea that Lewis had about it.
9. Experience is the result of our times in hours past (Edward Young)
What we have accumulated over time can help us in unexpected situations.
10. Experience has no ethical value, it is simply the name we give to our mistakes. Show that the future will be identical to the past (Oscar Wilde)
Our experiences they give us a teaching and in a way they predict situations.
11. The knowledge of men does not go beyond their experience (John Locke)
... since this is the one that provides "raw" information.
12. A grain of good experience at 9 years old is worth more than a moral course at 20 (J. Nievo)
On the flexibility of learning at an early age.
13. Today could be a great day, plantéatelo well. Taking advantage of it or passing it by depends, in part, on you. Give the experience the day off, to begin, and receive it as if it were a party to keep. Do not allow it to vanish, look out and consume life in bulk. Today can be a great day: hard on him (Joan Manuel Serrat)
Be open and allow yourself to live situations that fill your life with flatness.
14. (...) Causes and effects cannot be discovered by reason, but by experience (David Hume)
It is the only way to contrast a theory in the face of reality.
15. Without the influence of experience we would be in total ignorance of any question of fact, beyond what is immediately present to memory and the senses (David Hume)
For this philosopher, experience has contributed much to the development of knowledge.
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16. Experience by itself is not science (Edmund Husserl)
... since it would need other elements to be considered as such.
17. Knowledge is acquired by reading the fine print of a contract; the experience, not reading it (Francis Bacon)
Experience can give us a certain ability to anticipate reality.
18. We are not human beings with a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings with a human experience (Pierre Teilhard De Chardin)
A phrase of experience that invites you to reflect.
19. We are very experienced in having no experience. But the fact is... The fact is... The fact is that we have not had experience for much longer (Terry Pratchett)
What we have lived justifies what we have known so far.
20. In the school of experience, lessons are expensive, but only in them are the foolish corrected (Benjamin Franklin)
The only way to improve our way through life is to learn from hard experiences.
21. Only one's own personal experience makes a man wise (Sigmund Freud)
Each situation contains our essence and each episode of our life is directed to give us an individual lesson.
22. The world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The Measure of All Things (Robert Pirsig)
It is the sign that we are alive.
23. Men learn little from the experience of others. But in life, the same time never comes back (Thomas Stearns Eliot)
Many times we have made sense of many things when we see that they happen to others.
24. The experiences that we tell are often those that we had no intention of doing, not those that we decided to do (Alberto Moravia)
The intensity with which they appear surpasses the threshold of our memory.
25. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth, the more experience you have to acquire (Lyman Frank Baum)
It is for this reason that grandparents are related to wisdom.
26. (...) And knowing, in the current situation, how imperfect such education can be, they long for an experience, but an applied and systematized experience (Florence Nightingale)
In this phrase of experience, it is approached as part of a methodology to gain wisdom.
27. New experiences are very useful, because they enrich the spirit (Margaret Mitchell)
Because they provide us with new knowledge.
28. All the machinery of our intelligence, our ideas and general laws, fixed objects and external principles, people and gods are as many symbolic expressions, algebraic. They represent experience, an experience that we cannot retain or follow closely in all its details (George Santayana)
In the course of events, it is impossible to keep everything.
29. There is no past or future. There is only the present. Yesterday it was present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow it will be present when you experience it. Therefore, the experience only occurs in the present, and beyond the experience nothing exists (Ramana Maharshi)
A reflection on time.
30. Do not transmit to those who read you more than the experience that comes from the pain, and that it is not the pain itself. Do not cry in public (Count de Lautréamont)
About the experience we feel when we read a literary work.
31. We also use the term "experience" to refer to the knowledge accumulated throughout our lives. All the information that comes to us through the senses is constantly encoded or wrapped in previous knowledge. In this way, our experience constitutes the raw material from which we create our own maps or models of the world (Robert Dilts)
What we live is what constitutes for us a new vision of things.
32. If I knew I had to go through those experiences again... It would kill me (Laura Hillenbrand)
This phrase brings us closer to a dialogue where the experience was lived and assimilated in an intense way.
33. Everyone learns from experience, but some of us have to go to summer school (Peter De Vries)
A small critique of the theoretical educational system, thus giving value to the experimental.
34. Experience is what you get while looking for something else (Federico Fellini)
Filmmaker's appreciation of the value of what has been learned.
35. Just as before I left a country and a very good job to go to another, and between the stock market and life I have always chosen life, now that I am quite established, I choose life again: it is a rejuvenating, dangerous, difficult experience, a challenge to return to a country that has changed so much respect for what I knew (Alfredo Bryce Echenique)
This phrase by Bryce brings us closer to the experience in a pure way.
36. It is commonly said that an act is instinctive for which we need experience that enables us to perform them, when an animal performs it, especially if it is a very young animal, without experience, and when it is carried out in the same way by many individuals, without them knowing for what purpose it is executed (Charles Darwin)
Experience was an important element for Darwin in shaping his evolutionary theory.
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37. Experience tells us something that we did not know before and could not learn, without having had the experience (Ludwig von Mises)
A basic element of our life.
38. No kind of experience can ever force us to discard or modify a priori theorems. They are not derived from experience; they are logically prior to this and cannot be proven by corroborative experience, nor denied by experience to the contrary. We can understand action only by means of a priori theorems. Nothing is more clearly an inversion of reality than the thesis of empiricism that maintains that propositions are reached theoretical through induction and based on an observation of the facts without any presupposition (Ludwig von Mises)
In this phrase of experience learning is seen from the perspective of an economist.
39. (...) Although the experience is a disease that offers so little danger of contagion (Oliverio Girando)
Everyone dares to live it.
40. The nature of the experience is determined by the essential conditions of life (John Dewey)
All the elements that come together in it.
41. As all experience is constituted by the interaction between the "subject" and the "object", between a self and its world, it is neither merely physical nor merely mental, whichever factor predominates (John Dewey)
About the main elements of the experience.
42. The interaction of a living being with his circumstance is found in vegetative and animal life. However, the experience is only human and conscious when what is given here and now is expanded with meanings and values extracted from the absent whose presence is only imaginative (John Dewey)
Only human beings can live the experience by analyzing it through abstract thought.
43. Man is said to have an experience of the world to which he belongs. What does this mean? Man explores the surface of things and experiences them. He extracts from them a knowledge relative to his constitution; get experience from them. Experience what belongs to things (Martin Buber)
The experience as part of its nature and essence.
44. Only one thing is more painful than learning from experience, and that is, not learning from experience (Laurence J. Peter)
Missing the opportunity to learn from experiences
45. Between man and man there is no great difference. Superiority consists in taking advantage of the lessons of experience (Thucydides)
Above all that experience can offer us.
46. A thorn of experience is worth more than a forest of warnings (James Russell Lowell)
Live something directly leaves a clear emotional imprint.
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47. Experience is something you don't get until right after you need it (Sir Laurence Olivier)
When we realize its value.
48. An experience is never a failure, because it always comes to prove something (Thomas Alva Edison)
We are always going to nourish ourselves with it.
49. The experience does not consist in what has been lived, but in what has been reflected (Jose María de Pereda)
If we do not think about what happened, it is impossible to draw any lessons.
50. The experience is a good school, but the tuition is very expensive (Heinrich Heine)
Going into it can represent the cost of many things.
51. The experience of others has never served anyone (André Massena)
Each experience is tailored to each person when interpreting it.
52. Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you (Aldous Huxley)
You are what you do with the learning you get.
53. Experience is a fierce teacher, but it is clear that it makes you learn (Clive Staples Lewis)
Life can be cruel, but you learn from everything.
54. Experience is a flame that does not shine but burns (Benito Pérez Galdos)
This phrase tries to explain the intensity with which the experience is lived.
55. More of the road is known from having traveled on it than from all the conjectures and descriptions in the world (William Hazlitt)
An example of how we draw lessons about reality.
56. An expert is a man who has stopped thinking: he knows (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Someone who has focused his life on some object.
57. For most men, the experience is like the stern lights of a ship, illuminating only the path behind the back (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
According to this phrase, experience only makes sense of past events.
58. The experience is like a lottery ticket bought after the draw. I don't believe in her (Gabriela Mistral)
The position of a Chilean poet regarding the experience.
59. Experience is a wonderful thing, it allows us to recognize a mistake every time we make it again (Franklin P. Jones)
It is our guide in the face of difficulties.
60. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience (George Bernard Shaw)
A clever way of summarizing the limited nature of learning.
61. It seems to me, Sancho, that there is no saying that is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from the same experience, mother of all sciences (Miguel de Cervantes)
One of those phrases about experience that take on a special value for its authorship.
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62. The experience of the world does not consist in the number of things that have been seen, but in the number of things on which it has been reflected fruitfully (Gottfried Leibniz)
On the teaching that experience has left us.
63. I prefer the staff of experience to the fast car of fortune. The philosopher travels on foot (Pythagoras of Samos)
On foot and with time by our side.
64. Nothing is known well except through experience (Sir Francis Bacon)
Wisdom emanates from her.
65. Experience is the staff of the blind (Jacques Roumain)
The light with which we accompany our journey.