Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

- Aldous Huxley

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Eliot, George

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Godwin, Gail

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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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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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Carter, Angela

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Karl

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

Albert Camus

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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