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Quotes About Experience

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
Federico Fellini

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis

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

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