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Experience

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Hill, Napoleon

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Storrs, R. 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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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 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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Albert Camus

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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 comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall