Best Quotes on Experience

This is a collection of the best quotes on experience. 

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida 

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“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”

― Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

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“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”

― Oscar Wilde

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“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

― Henry Ford

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“This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!”

― Sivananda

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“Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.”

― P.D. James, The Children of Men

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“If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.”

― Mikhail S. Gorbachev

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“Experience is what you get when you didn’t know what you wanted.”

― Jill Shalvis, The Sweetest Thing

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“Good morning," said the little prince.

Good morning," said the merchant.

This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink.

Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince.

Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."

And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?"

Anything you like..."

As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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