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

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

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

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Camus, Albert

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Barry LePatner

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Italian

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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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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