Motivational Quotes

Experience

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

- Albert Camus

Best Quotes about Experience

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

19.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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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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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Russell, Bertrand

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won't sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

Twain, Mark

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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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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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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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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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