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Experience

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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

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.

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

Pascal, Blaise

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marx, Karl

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

Camus, Albert

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Billings, Josh

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

Johnson

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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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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 largely non-transferable.