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Experience

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Marx, Karl

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

Billings, Josh

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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. 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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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

Albert Camus

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur