Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Albert Camus

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Stern, Judith

Experience is largely non-transferable.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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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

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barry LePatner

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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 is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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

Albert Camus

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

Jagger, Mick

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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