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Quotes including the word “experience”.

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Maya Angelou

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Li Bai

He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Boccaccio

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Caesar

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Salvador Dali

Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dalí.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Dostoevsky

I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.

Paulo Freire

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

Khalil Gibran

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

Nikolai Gogol

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

Heinrich Heine

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Hippocrates

Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading the judgment difficult.

Na Hye-sok

the experience taught me: nothing is impossible.

Muhammad Iqbal

inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.

William James

My experience is what I agree to attend to.

Juan Jimenez

To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

Kierkegaard

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

John Locke

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Machiavelli

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

Montessori

As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.

Anais Nin

Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.

Amos Oz

Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.

Charlie Parker

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

Pittacus

"Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry.

A. Edgar Poe,

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Rilke

Only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

Robert Scott

The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

John Steinbeck

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Leo Tolstoy

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Manos Xatzidakis

Music needs 3 things: Art, technique and experiences. Without them it is not possible to write music.