Experience Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about experience.

Douglas Adams

Douglas Adams

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Human beings, who are almost unique in their ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent aversion to doing so.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery

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I do not write about my experiences, but from outside of them.

Sir Francis Bacon

Sir Francis Bacon

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Nothing is well known except through experience.

Lord Byron

Lord Byron

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Experience is the first of the philosophers, but the most painful when we have come to know its science well.

Miguel de Cervantes

Miguel de Cervantes

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It seems to me, Sancho, that there is no proverb that is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from the same experience, the mother of all sciences.

Alfred d' Houdetot

Alfred d' Houdetot

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Experience is as useful as a lottery ticket after the draw.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci

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Experience does not err; only your judgments err in expecting from it what is not in its power.

William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

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One knows more about the road by having traveled on it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

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Experience is a good school, but the tuition is very expensive.

Edmund Husserl

Edmund Husserl

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even though our experience of it resides there, as an experience of the external.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Experience is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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Experience is a fierce teacher, but it's clear that it makes you learn.