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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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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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

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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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 should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Bax, Arnold

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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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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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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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg