Explanation Quote by Mark Z. Danielewski

Experience is only half of experience.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Experience cannot be fully explained.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My experience has allowed me to have understanding in some areas that others may not have.

— Nelson Agholor

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

— Marshall McLuhan

Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.

— Mark Twain

Experience is one which we gain through trying and failure.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

— Dan Stanford

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

— Elizabeth Bowen

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

— William Osler

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

— Randy Pausch

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

— Leonardo da Vinci