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Experience QuotesFamous Experience quotes by popular authors such as Mark Twain, Elbert Hubbard, George Bernard Shaw, Ralph Waldo Emerson, C. S. Lewis and others.
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[highlight-text]To lose Is to learn.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Trust one who has tried.
Virgil
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[highlight-text]Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Let weakness learn meekness.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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[highlight-text]He's a chip o' th' old block.
William Rowley
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[highlight-text]Time is the wisest counselor.
Pericles
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[highlight-text]A burnt child dreads the fire.
English Proverb
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[highlight-text]Our lives teach us who we are.
Salman Rushdie
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[highlight-text]Every moment is an experience.
Jake Roberts
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[highlight-text]Experience is a great teacher.
John Legend
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[highlight-text]Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
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[highlight-text]Adversity and loss make a man wise.
Welsh Proverb
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[highlight-text]Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]Experience is the extract of suffering.
Sir Arthur Helps
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[highlight-text]Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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[highlight-text]All experience is an arch to build upon.
Henry Brooks Adams
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[highlight-text]Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
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[highlight-text]The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
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[highlight-text]Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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[highlight-text]All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
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[highlight-text]Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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[highlight-text]Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
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[highlight-text]Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
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[highlight-text]The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill
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[highlight-text]Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor
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[highlight-text]Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
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[highlight-text]Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James A. Froude
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[highlight-text]An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]What you really value is what you miss not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
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[highlight-text]A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.
John Keats
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[highlight-text]Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
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[highlight-text]Experience is a good teacher but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
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[highlight-text]Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day
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[highlight-text]Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin
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[highlight-text]Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.
Theodore Roosevelt
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[highlight-text]Experience is a dear teacher but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Experience comprises illusions lost rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux
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[highlight-text]One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
Frank McCourt
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[highlight-text]Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]What one has not experienced one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
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[highlight-text]Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
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[highlight-text]Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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[highlight-text]Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.
Alfred de Musset
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[highlight-text]Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
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[highlight-text]The value of experience is not in seeing much but in seeing wisely.
William Osler
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[highlight-text]Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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[highlight-text]Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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[highlight-text]Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.
Walter Bagehot
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[highlight-text]Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
Eric Hoffer
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[highlight-text]Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.
Carl Jung
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[highlight-text]God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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[highlight-text]Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Jim Horning
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[highlight-text]Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston
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[highlight-text]Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
Fred Brooks
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[highlight-text]Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn. My God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
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[highlight-text]If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
Albert Camus
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[highlight-text]Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Vernon Law
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[highlight-text]If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
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[highlight-text]Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
Baltasar Gracian
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[highlight-text]Good judgment comes from experience and often experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
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[highlight-text]A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
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[highlight-text]The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice Walker
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[highlight-text]I am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
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[highlight-text]Experience proves this or that or nothing according to the preconceptions we bring to it.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
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[highlight-text]Good judgement comes from experience and experience - well that comes from poor judgement.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
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[highlight-text]The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]If one is only to talk from first-hand experience conversation would be a very poor business.
C. S. Lewis
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[highlight-text]My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Agnetha Faltskog
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[highlight-text]Motives and purposes are in the brain and heart of man. Consequences are in the world of fact.
Henry Geaye
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[highlight-text]Results? Why man I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Thomas Edison
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[highlight-text]Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
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[highlight-text]To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[highlight-text]Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Jan Peter Balkenende
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[highlight-text]We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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[highlight-text]Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus
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[highlight-text]An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg
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[highlight-text]The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.
Piet Hein
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[highlight-text]Everything has been said before but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant
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[highlight-text]You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal; the second that we must not correct too much.
Eugene Delacroix
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[highlight-text]Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell if experience was that important we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.
Doug Rader
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.
William Stafford
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[highlight-text]Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard M. Baruch
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]A woman's life can really be a succession of lives each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
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[highlight-text]The more one does and sees and feels the more one is able to do and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home and love and understanding companionship.
Amelia Earhart
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[highlight-text]Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]For having lived long I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain