{"id":2894,"date":"2014-06-24T07:54:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T14:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2017-04-21T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:14:20","slug":"five-quotes-from-literature-about-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/five-quotes-from-literature-about-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Quotes from Literature about Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we added experience quotes as a topic. \u00a0Here are five of my favorites from the collection.<\/p>\n

\"Experience<\/p>\n

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Lady Windermere’s Fan<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n

“Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Ambassadors<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Henry James<\/a><\/p>\n

How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Adam Bede<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Professor at the Breakfast Table<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.<\/a><\/p>\n

“No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde<\/a><\/p>\n

See Entire Experience Quote Collection<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Yesterday we added experience quotes as a topic. \u00a0Here are five of my favorites from the collection. “Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”\u00a0~\u00a0Lady Windermere’s Fan\u00a0by\u00a0Oscar Wilde “Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in …<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[644,642,395,306,432,613,351,172,643,645],"class_list":["post-2894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-site-news","tag-adam-bede","tag-experience-quotes","tag-george-eliot","tag-henry-james","tag-lady-windermeres-fan","tag-lord-arthur-saviles-crime","tag-oliver-wendell-holmes","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-the-ambassadors","tag-the-professor-at-the-breakfast-table"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t