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Quotes About Experience

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it.
~ Javan
One of the most powerful energies you can ever experience is gratitude.
~ Joe Vitale
Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.
~ Alice McDermott
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate.
~ William Golding
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.
~ Watchman Nee
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
~ Andre Gide
In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.
~ Roger Ebert
I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.
~ Andrew W.K.
Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.
~ Ann Landers
Experience has taught me that you feel better on a flight if you avoid chicken fat in plastic sauce.
~ Terry Pratchett
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
~ John Lothrop Motley
We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.
~ Oprah Winfrey
...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.
~ Peter Block
Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.
~ April Winchell
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
~ Pope Leo XIII
Despite a decade of criticism and budget cuts, the specialised UN agencies have far more expertise and hands-on experience than any other organisations in the world.
~ Jeffrey Sachs
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.
~ Steve Jobs
We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
~ George Eliot, Middlemarch
My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.
~ Bill Gates
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.
~ Frank McCourt