Julius Caesar said “Experience is the teacher of all things.” Experience can teach you a lot of things. Below you will find our collection of best wise and inspirational experience quotes and sayings.

60 Wise and Inspirational Experience Quotes and Sayings

1. I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else. Queen Latifah

2. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

3. Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love – I think that’s the meaning of this human experience. Steve Gleason

4. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. Andre Gide

5. For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. A. Bartlett Giamatti

6. 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

7. If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever. Brian Chesky

8. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau

9. 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

10. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers

11. Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that.

12. 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

13. Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. Margaret Fuller

14. It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably – this is fundamental – but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways. Michael Leunig

15. Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn’t follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn’t in the public eye. I thought, ‘I’m young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that’s my prerogative.’ Shannen Doherty

16. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Khalil Gibran

17. Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. E. E. Cummings

18. 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

19. There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. Ansel Adams

20. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D’Israeli

21. There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man’s general destiny. Lascelles Abercrombie

22. What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there’s a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It’s unspeakable. Iyanla Vanzant

23. My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it’s not chance it ends up in a certain place. It’s forces that are at play. Andrea Bocelli

24. It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening. Phil Daniels

25. There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart. Hunter S. Thompson

26. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho

27. I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that’s pretty much everywhere in everyone’s life. Tina Yothers

28. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard

29. Genius is the ability to renew one’s emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne

30. As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions. Al Gore

31. 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

32. It is important that alongside the blockbusters there are stories that can inspire and audiences can experience together in the cinema. Justin Chadwick

33. There are people hell-bent on the idea that we’re a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It’s simply about life experience. Amy Lee

34. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead

35. 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

36. There’s simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety. Chesley Sullenberger

37. I’ve always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal. Trey Anastasio

38. Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. Max Frisch

39. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. Laurel Clark

40. Once you’re in a particular country, and you’re surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience. Evelyn Glennie

41. The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Marcus Tullius Cicero

42. Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. Thomas Jefferson

43. The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley

44. Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don’t find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models. Abel Ferrara

45. 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

46. Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again. Deepak Chopra

47. It’s a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself. Brad Pitt

48. You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. Aubrey O’Day

49. What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. David Hockney

50. 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

52. Sailing is the closest I can get to nature – it’s adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks. Daria Werbowy

53. There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. Bram Stoker

54. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein

55. It’s always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It’s an awesome experience to hear what other people hear. Tommy Lee

56. As a brand marketer, I’m a big believer in ‘branding the customer experience,’ not just selling the service. John Sculley

57. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire

58. The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions. Eric Kandel

59. When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. William Boyd

60. As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like ‘older and wiser’ and ‘respect your elders,’ promoting age as something to be cherished and respected. Jenna Morasca