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Experience

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

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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.

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

Johnson

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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.

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

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

Law, Vernon 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 is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Jagger, Mick

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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 a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Camus, Albert

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Albert Camus

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French