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Experience

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

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Keats, John

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

Johnson

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

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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.

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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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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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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bax, Arnold

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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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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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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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