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Quotes about Experience


After all his former doubts, he now felt something he had never before experienced--the certainty that love is invincible.

Leo Tolstoy

Death is the one experience that we cannot put in perspective

We should consider ourselves as spirits having a human experience, rather than humans having an occasional spiritual experience.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

We should consider ourselves as spirits having a human experience, rather than humans having an occasional spiritual experience.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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 [Last Chance to See]

Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences.

The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.

The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their inexperience.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

Technology...the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant

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 Adams Keller

Remarriage: A triumph of hope over experience.

Samuel Johnson

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience.

Elbert Hubbard

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stearn

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