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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams1902–1984
A learning experience is one of those things that say, “You know that thing you just did? Don’t do that.”
Douglas Adams1952–2001Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt
- Comedy
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The free-holder: or political essays, (1716), No. 30 (2 April 1716)
The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
- Failure
Time waxing old can many a lesson teach.
Aeschylus525–456 BCPrometheus Bound, line 981 (tr. E. H. Plumptre).
- Time
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad Ali1942–2016Interview in Playboy magazine (November 1975)
For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9
- Education
When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering
Jane Austen1775–1817Persuasion (1817), Chapter XXIn context
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940“The Storyteller” (1936), p. 91
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981–1983 (1984)
- Art
The journey is part of the experience⁠—an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.
Anthony Bourdain1956–2018A Cook’s Tour (2001)
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1, volume v, p. 331
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
- Knowledge
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
Giacomo Casanova1725–1798Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
- Good & Evil
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)
- Knowledge