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Experience

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Marx, Karl

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Baldwin, James

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

Jagger, Mick

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Albert Camus

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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 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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is largely non-transferable.