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Experience Quotes

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is."
Oscar Wilde
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way"
Mark Twain
"I think you should automatically get smarter as you get older."
George Clooney
"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life"
Sophia Loren
"Experience is making mistakes and learning from them"
Bill Ackman
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability"
Henry Ford
"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of, education"
Victor Hugo
"The themes of cycles are really the only things you have to understand in order to understand everything I took away from 50 years in the markets"
Howard S. Marks
"I think that you can love wholeheartedly with a lesson learned."
Taylor Swift
"Be a practitioner, not a theorist."
Gary Vaynerchuk
"We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience"
John Dewey
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him"
Aldous Huxley
"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
Anton Chekhov
"The life so short, the craft so long to learn"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"The greatest scholars are not the wisest men"
Geoffrey Chaucer
"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting."
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
Immanuel Kant
"Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves"
Jawaharlal Nehru
"I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited"
Jorge Luis Borges
"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full"
Marcel Proust