Experience
Experience as a general concept comprises knowledge of or skill of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event. The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment. For example, the word experience could be used in a statement like: "I have experience in fishing".
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Famous quotes containing the word experience:
“It’s been my experience that every time I think I know “where it’s at,” it’s usually somewhere else.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past—whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
But what experience and history teach is this—that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)