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Experience Quotes - Page 13

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Samuel Eliot Morison, Emily Morison Beck (1989). “Sailor historian: the best of Samuel Eliot Morison”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.

"De Institutione Oratoria" by Marcus Fabius Quintilianus as reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 244-45., 1922.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

"Portman Natalie Portman tells Harvard graduates: 'Make your inexperience an asset'". www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2015.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”