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Experience

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

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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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Mccormick, Terry

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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 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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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stern, Judith

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.