Experience
Trial, as a test or experiment.
The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
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Experience Quotations
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein
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
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Oscar Wilde
There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Experience Translations
experience in Afrikaans is deurmaak, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in Danish is erfaring
experience in Dutch is belevenis, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in German is Erlebnis, Erfahrung, Erfahrung
experience in Italian is esperienza
experience in Latin is sentio, experior (experiri; expertus ), usus
experience in Norwegian is erfaring
experience in Spanish is experiencia
experience in Swedish is vana, erfara, erfarenhet, uppleva, upplevelse
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