85 Best Experience Quotes

Experience is the best teacher, but training is a close second.

The fireground doesn't care about your rank - only your knowledge.

Complacency kills faster than fire.

There are old firefighters and bold firefighters - but few old, bold firefighters.

The fire of today is the lesson for tomorrow.

The old ways still work - that's why they're still around.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. – African proverb

Racing is not about the destination, it's about the journey at 200 mph.

Racing is about the moments that take your breath away.

The track is the ultimate teacher.

Life is a celebration of lessons learned.

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences. – Christopher McCandless

The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences. – Christopher McCandless

I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything. – Daisy Buchanan

Suck the marrow out of life. – John Keating

Just taste it. You can't tell how something is gonna make you feel. – Don Draper

You don't frighten me, mate. I've been frightened by experts. – Alfie Solomons

There's no such thing as a painless lesson. – Rem Saverem

Maybe the real you is the sum of your physical body plus your memories and experiences. – Dr. Willis

To be human is to be a complex system of memories and experiences. – Dr. Willis

I'll never forget these last few days, no matter how many time leaps I make. – Makoto Konno

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off. – Holden Caulfield

The longer one lives, the less one believes in evil and the more one believes in unhappiness.

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard. – Ishmael

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. – Lord Henry

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. – Lord Henry

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

I may not be as strong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution. – Santiago

The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck... and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. – Narrator

The only source of knowledge is experience. – Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. – Leonardo da Vinci

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others. – Leonardo da Vinci

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot—it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive. – Maya Angelou

The world is not in your books and maps, it’s out there. – Gandalf

The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart. – Gandalf

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. – The Duchess

You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? – Sean Maguire

You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. – Sean Maguire

You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talkin' about. – Sean Maguire

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. – Liet-Kynes

You've got city hands, Mr. Hooper. You've been countin' money all your life. – Quint

Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. – Morpheus

I thought it wasn't real. – Neo

You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. – Rhett Butler

You need to be kissed, and often, by someone who knows how. – Rhett Butler

No, I don't think I will kiss you, although you need kissing, badly. That's what's wrong with you. You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how. – Rhett Butler

Wisdom comes from experience, child. And you are woefully short on both. – Athena

When you swing around the city, it feels like you’re flying, doesn’t it? – Doctor Octopus