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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“Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)
“... metaphysics, even bad metaphysics, really rests on observations, whether consciously or not; and the only reason that this is not universally recognized is that it rests upon kinds of phenomena with which every man’s experience is so saturated that he pays no particular attention to them.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)
“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)