Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stern, Judith

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Jagger, Mick

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Barry LePatner

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albert Camus

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Johnson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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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

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

Doctorow, E. L.