Experience Quotations
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| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | |||
| - Douglas Adams | |||
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| Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it. | |||
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| The trouble with using experience as a guide is that the final exam often comes first and then the lesson. | |||
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| Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| By far the best proof is experience. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. | |||
| - Josh Billings | |||
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| Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. | |||
| - Rita Mae Brown | |||
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| Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along. | |||
| - Samuel Butler | |||
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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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| All that I know I learned after I was thirty. | |||
| - Georges Clemenceau | |||
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| A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. | |||
| - Colette | |||
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| Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. | |||
| - Clarence Day | |||
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| Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. | |||
| - Mark van Doren | |||
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| The world is your school. | |||
| - Martin H. Fischer | |||
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| Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. | |||
| - John W. Gardner | |||
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| Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. | |||
| - André Gide | |||
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| Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Jr. Holmes | |||
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| God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. | |||
| - Elbert Hubbard | |||
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| I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. | |||
| - Hubert H. Humphrey | |||
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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 | |||
| Experience teaches only the teachable. | |||
| - Aldous Huxley | |||
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| Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | |||
| - Franklin P. Jones | |||
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| Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. | |||
| - John Keats | |||
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| Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. | |||
| - Soren Kierkegaard | |||
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| You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. | |||
| - Stephen King | |||
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| Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. | |||
| - Stephen Butler Leacock | |||
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| There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. | |||
| - Laurence J. Peter | |||
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| Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. | |||
| - Chinese Proverb | |||
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| No physician is really good before he has killed one or two patients. | |||
| - Hindu Proverb | |||
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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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| We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. | |||
| - Charles Louis de Secondat | |||
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| Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. | |||
| - Pete Seeger | |||
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| A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
| 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. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. | |||
| - John Updike | |||
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| If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. | |||
| - Abigail Van Buren | |||
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| Desire and a willingness to work make up for a lack of experience. | |||
| - Sam Walton | |||
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| Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. | |||
| - Oscar Wilde | |||