comprises knowledge
of or skill in or observation
of some thing or some event gained through involvement in or exposure to that thing or event.
The history of the word experience aligns it closely with the concept of experiment
.
For example, the word experience could be used in a statement like: "I have experience in fishing".
The concept of experience generally refers to know-how or procedural knowledge
, rather than propositional knowledge: on-the-job training rather than book-learning.
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
...what we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, [and] of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real...
‘Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.