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Robert Browning
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| "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can
do, Nothing else." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn." | |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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| "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act
without benefit of experience." | |
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Henry Miller
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| "Ask the experienced rather than the learned." | |
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Proverb
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| "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is
noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and Third, by experience,
which is the bitterest." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our
good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in
that light." | |
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Raymond Holliwell
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| "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." | |
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Heinrich Heine
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| "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific
bills." | |
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Minna Thomas Antrim
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| "Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get
the experience, you"re too damned old to do anything about it." | |
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Jimmy Connors
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| "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the
lesson afterward. And in the end, it"s not the years in your life that
count. It"s the life in your years." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is
inexperienced." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "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." | |
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Henry James, Jr.
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| "Experience is not what happens to us, rather it is what we do with
what happens to us." | |
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| "Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what
happens to you." | |
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Aldous Huxley
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| "Experience is something you don"t get until just after you need
it." | |
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Sir Laurence Kerr, Baron Olivier of Brighton
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| "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again." | |
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F. P. Jones
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| "Experience is the mother of science." | |
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Henry George Bohm
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| "Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes." | |
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Elbert Hubbard
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| "Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting
the lesson." | |
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Vernon Law
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| "Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more
finesse!" | |
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Derwood Fincher
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| "Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make
it again." | |
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Earl Wilson
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| "Experience is what you get when you don"t get what you want." | |
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Dan Stanford
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| "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no
other." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes." | |
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James Anthony Froude
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| "Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair." | |
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Judith Stern
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| "Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the
contemplation of their own experience." | |
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Randolph S. Bourne
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| "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that
comes from poor judgment." | |
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Cousin Woodman
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| "Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from
bad judgment." | |
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Rita Mae Brown
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| "Happiness isn"t something you experience, it"s something you
remember." | |
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Oscar Levant
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| "He is not a perfect man of fortitude, who hath not fallen into
misfortunes; and there is no physician but the experienced." | |
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Prophet Muhammad
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| "I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the
past." | |
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Patrick Henry
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| "I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their
names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who." | |
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Rudyard Kipling
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| "I shall endeavor not to look back unless it is to derive useful
lessons from past errors and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought
experience." | |
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Unknown
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| "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be
experienced." | |
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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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| "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their
capacity for experience." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Never ?for the sake of peace and quiet? deny your own experience or
convictions." | |
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Dag Hammarskjöld
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| "No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an
endless seeker, with no past at my back." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "No man"s knowledge here can go beyond his experience." | |
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John Locke
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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." | |
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John Keats
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| "Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." | |
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François Auguste René Rodin
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| "One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of
warning." | |
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James Russell Lowell
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| "People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and
courageously. This is how character is built." | |
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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| "Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a
mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent
$600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his
experience?" | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "ROMEO He jests at scars that never felt a wound." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The experience may have been costly, but it was also
priceless." | |
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Peter G. Peterson
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| "The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the
unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one
recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "The object of living is work, experience, happiness." | |
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Henry Ford
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| "The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post." | |
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Thomas Holcroft
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| "The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years
but the one with the richest experiences." | |
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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| "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic
experience." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "The trouble with learning from experience is that you never
graduate." | |
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Doug Larson
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| "The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything.
Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.... The world
doesn"t fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can"t
pigeon-hole a real new experience." | |
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David Herbert Lawrence
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| "There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard
to apply." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it." | |
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Desiderius Erasmus
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| "We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from
past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought
experience." | |
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George Washington
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| "What one has not experienced one will never understand in
print." | |
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Isadora Duncan
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| "Wisdom is the daughter of experience." | |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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| "You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot
create experience. You must undergo it." | |
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Albert Camus
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