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Experience

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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mccormick, Terry

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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. 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 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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Albert Camus

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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 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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Billings, Josh

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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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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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 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