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Experience

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Van Buren, Abigail

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Camus, Albert

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Albert Camus

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft