Experience

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EXPERIENCE: Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Unknown Source)

EXPERIENCE: Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. (Eric Hoffer, U.S. moral and social philosopher and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 1902-1983)

EXPERIENCE: To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, and philosopher, 1772-1834)

EXPERIENCE: Experience teaches only the teachable. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE: Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. (Minna Antrim, U.S. writer, 1861-1950)

EXPERIENCE: Experience is not what happens to people; it is what they do with what happens to them. (Aldous Huxley, English novelist and philosopher, 1894-1963)

EXPERIENCE: Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn. (C.S. Lewis, British novelist, lay theologian, broadcaster, 1898-1963)

EXPERIENCE: Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy. (Thomas Carlyle, Scottish philosopher, satirical essayist, historian, and mathematician, 1795-1881)

EXPERIENCE: A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. U.S. jurist who served both as an Associate Justice and as the Acting Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1841-1935)