Favorite Quotations ~  Experience Art As Experience

"Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." ~ Oscar Wilde

Good to Great

Belief precedes experience. ~ Harry Plamer

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ~ Tennessee Williams, Memoirs

Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark. ~ Anatole France

I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. ~ Joseph Campbell

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high. ~ Heinrich Heine

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair. ~ James Baldwin

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ~ Ambrose Bierce

I look for lessons in every experience. It adds to my leadership abilities. ~ Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, US Weekly, 3/22/04

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