“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.”
“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.”
“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”
“Every moment is an experience.”
“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.”
“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.”
“The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.”
“The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.”
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
“We are each responsible for all of our experiences.”
“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.”
“My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.”
“An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.”
“Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.”
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
“Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.”
“Experience is a great teacher.”
“Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.”
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.”
“Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.”