Definition of Experience

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Experience

Trial, as a test or experiment.

The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

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Experience Quotations

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.
Albert Einstein

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.
Marilyn Monroe

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Tony Robbins

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
Tony Robbins

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Tony Robbins

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln

Experience Translations

experience in Afrikaans is deurmaak, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in Danish is erfaring
experience in Dutch is belevenis, ervaring, ondervinding
experience in German is Erlebnis, Erfahrung, Erfahrung
experience in Italian is esperienza
experience in Latin is sentio, experior (experiri; expertus ), usus
experience in Norwegian is erfaring
experience in Spanish is experiencia
experience in Swedish is vana, erfara, erfarenhet, uppleva, upplevelse

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