Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you.

It's not the experience that happens to you: it's what you do with the experience that happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

values cannot be changed through reason, only through experience.

Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.

# You create your own experience.

Experience by itself is not science.

Was Du erlebst, kann keine Macht der Welt Dir rauben. (What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.) Not only our experiences, but all we have done, whatever great thoughts we may have had and all we have suffered, all this is not lost, though it is past; we have brought it into being. Having been is a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you — it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

...you can only value something if you've experienced it.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Until you actually experience something, you just don’t know.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.