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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Aldous Huxley

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Keats, John

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Johnson

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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