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Top Collection of Quotes About Experience

Experience is the driver of our knowledge. It defines us, shapes our personality and forms our opinions. It is there, every day, and it fuels our creativity, helping us to join the dots in so many situations.

We have all definitely come across the word experience most probably when going through job advertisements. Unless one is applying for internship positions, most employers usually specify the experience they require their applicants to have. From this, one thing that comes out clearly is that experience is built over time. Aldous Huxley, a British author, once said,

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

There are a number of scenarios that one can formulate to understand more on this, for example, being sent to a war zone as a member of the military can be termed as what happens to the person involved. The experience then comes in the tactics than one employs to survive or the things one goes through and withstands during the period in question. These may include spending sleepless nights, withstanding some very harsh weather conditions and hunting wild animals for food among others.

In case, such an operation arises again, the chief commander will most likely put the person who was in the battle field among those in the forefront (probably with some promotion) since he or she was earlier involved in such and; therefore, possesses some adequate experience. This is so because such a person understands and already has solutions to most, if not all, of the problems/hardships involved.

Based on the previous illustration, one is more likely to return to a battlefield as a leader and there, therefore, exists a huge relationship between experience and leadership. In fact, this is the reason why there are promotions. On leaving college, one is usually employed as a junior staff from where he then rises through the ranks as he gains more and more experience. In a letter to Fielding Lewis, George Washington said,

To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.

What this simply means is that it’s hard to undo the mistakes that one made in the past, but the lessons learnt from such greatly assists one in avoiding the occurrence of similar blunders. This is where experience also comes in where after promotion, one can easily manage the junior staff members so that they don’t have to repeat those mistakes.

In conclusion, experience is acquired over a couple of months, or even years and one has to be involved in actual practice. An experienced person will, therefore, possess superior understanding and mastery of the field in question.

A List of 46 TOP Quotes About Experience

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

– William Osler

To deceive a diplomat speak the truth, he has no experience with it.

– Greek Proverb

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

– William Osler

Judgment comes from experience – and experience comes from bad judgment.

– Walter Wriston

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.

– Victoria Holt

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

– Unknown

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse

– Derwood Fincher

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

– Abraham Lincoln

Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

– William Shakespeare

Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

– Vernon Law

Experience is not what happens to you it’s what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.

– Abigail Van Buren

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn’t make sense right away.

– Richard Bach

Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

– Rita Mae Brown

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

– Mark Twain

Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.

– Ralph Banks

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

– Samuel Butler

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

– Samuel Johnson

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

– Benjamin Disraeli

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.

– Alfred Sheinwold

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.

– Hosea Ballou

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

– Randolph Bourne

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

– Rainer Maria Rilke

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

– Josh Billings

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

– Joseph Roux

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

– Charles Peguy

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

– Joseph Campbell

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

– Harold S. Geneen

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you’re too damned old to do anything about it.

– James Scott Jimmy Connors

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

– Benjamin Franklin

You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

– John Updike

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

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

– Richard Milhous Nixon

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

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

– John Keats

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

– Greg LeMond

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

– Leonardo da Vinci

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already, thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take firm root in our personal experience.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

– Samuel Smiles

The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for re

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eternity has nothing to do with the hereafter… This is it… If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience here’s the place to have the experience.

– Joseph Campbell

You couldn’t get hold of the things you’d done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

– Stephen King

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Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

– Lawrence Peter Berra

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

– Ralph Marston

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

– Georges Clemenceau

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

– John W. Gardner

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

– Ralph Marston

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

– Henry Havelock Ellis

The years teach much which the days never know.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

– Sanford I. Weill

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

– Oscar Wilde

To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live.

– Loren Klein

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

– Oscar Wilde

In my experience, there is no such thing as ‘luck.’

– George Lucas

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

– Louise L. Hay

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

– M. Scott Peck

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

– Franois Auguste Ren Rodin

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

– Belgian Proverb

Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

– Clarence Day

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

– Albert Einstein

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

– Kahlil Gibran

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

– Walter Pater

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

– William Wordsworth

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