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Experience

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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Russell, Bertrand

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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

Aldous Huxley

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh