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Experience

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Best Quotes about Experience

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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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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 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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Marx, Karl

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Getty, J. Paul