Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Source: Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), chapter 7.

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Source: John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book II, Ch. 1, sec. 19.

60 Best Quotes & Sayings About Experience

Experience is practical contact with and observation of facts or events. 1. Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett 2. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire 3. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Read More…

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My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I believe we’re here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.

Source: Gillian Anderson, Movieline Magazine “Gillian of the Spirits” (January, 1999).

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Source: Francis Bacon, Essays (1625); OF Travel. Complete Sentence: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.