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title: "3 Experience Missed Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Experience Missed quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Experience Missed sayings and thoughts."
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> [We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/we-had-the-experience-but-we-missed-the-meaning/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [“If you haven’t learned something From periods of suffering, If you haven’t wrung the juices Of your own pain and drank them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-overby/if-you-haven-t-learned-something-from-periods-of-suffering-if-you/)

[Eric Overby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-overby/)

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> [We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/we-had-the-experience-but-missed-the-meaning-and-approach-to-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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