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Experience

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Marx, Karl

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Barry LePatner