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Experience

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

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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.

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.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

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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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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Bellin, Gita

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Law, Vernon S.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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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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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Persian