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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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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.

Henry Ford
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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. -George Washington
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Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

Rita Mae Brown
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Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. -Barry LePatner
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Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted.

Ann Landers
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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon
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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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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner
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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. -Ram Dass
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Immanuel Kant
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The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Jo Coudert
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A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another. -P. Bourget
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Alan Gregg
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter
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Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end. -Walter H. Pater
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes. -James A. Froude
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I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor.

Leonardo Dicaprio
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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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In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. -Nancy Banks Smith
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Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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. -Norman Vincent Peale
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Joseph Roux
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

William Morris
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand. -Bette Greene
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