Experience

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:

    “Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)