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

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
John Frusciante on experience

I think we are a product of all our experiences.
Sanford I. Weill on experience

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day on experience

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura on experience

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons on experience

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing on experience

Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges on experience

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.
Walter Wriston on experience

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater on experience

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley on experience

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius on experience

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell on experience

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt on experience

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt on experience

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 Keller on experience

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller on experience

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein on experience

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson on experience

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley on experience