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Quotations on the topic of ‘experience’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.” -William Osler
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“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.” -Louise L. Hay
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“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.” -Josh Billings
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“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.” -Agnetha Faltskog
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“My experiences have taught me a lot and I’m happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.” -Ally Sheedy
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“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.” -Don Marquis
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“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.” -A. E. Housman
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“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” -Anne Lamott
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“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.” -Alphonse de Lamartine
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“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.” -Joseph Roux
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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.” -Henry Adams
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“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.” -Karl Kraus
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“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.” -Randolph Bourne
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“The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.” -John Frusciante
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“I think we are a product of all our experiences.” -Sanford I. Weill
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“Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.” -Albert Bandura
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“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.” -A. R. Ammons
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“Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.” -Jan Peter Balkenende
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” -Samuel Butler
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.” -Heinrich Heine
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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.” -John Ruskin
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“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.” -Georges Clemenceau
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“Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Fred Brooks
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“The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.” -Frank McCourt
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“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.” -Oscar Wilde
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“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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“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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“The years teach much which the days never know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” -Ralph Marston
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” -John W. Gardner
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“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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“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” -Queen Latifah
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“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.” -Albert Camus
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“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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“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.” -John Keats
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“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” -Auguste Rodin
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“Experience is the teacher of all things.” -Julius Caesar
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“If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.” -Abigail Van Buren
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” -C. S. Lewis
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” -Mark Twain
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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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