Motivational Quotes

Experience

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Experience

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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.

Daumal, Rene

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

Doctorow, E. L.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry

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Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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.

Twain, Mark

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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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.

Trump, Donald

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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Geneen, Harold S.

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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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.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

Buddha

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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.

Keats, John

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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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.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric