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

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

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.

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Italian

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Storrs, R. S.

Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Marx, Karl

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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 is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Billings, Josh