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Thursday, 24 July 2008
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"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Experience

A burnt child dreads the fire.
A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.
A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
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.
All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
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.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
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.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Everyone has 20/20 hindsight
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Experience is largely non-transferable.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is the extract of suffering.
Experience is the key to greatness.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
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.
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.
Experience teaches only the teachable.
Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.
Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.
Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me.
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.
He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.
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.
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
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.
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.
I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.
If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it.
If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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.
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
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.