"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
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Category: Experience
"Experience teaches only the teachable."
"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."
"Deep experience is never peaceful."
"If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser."
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
"Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."
"Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson."
"We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
"The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum."
"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."
"Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end."
"Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald."
"A burnt child dreads the fire."
"I know by my own pot how the others boil."
"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."
"He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string."
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