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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law on experience

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal on experience

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman on experience

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams on experience

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on experience

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley on experience

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on experience

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao Zedong on experience

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on experience

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington on experience

I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
Danica Patrick on experience

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck on experience

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
Louis C. K. on experience

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen on experience

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.
Donald Norman on experience

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis on experience

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake on experience

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
J. Paul Getty on experience

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
George Mason on experience

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara de Angelis on experience