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Experience

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Barry LePatner

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

Johnson

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

Mccormick, Terry