Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baldwin, James

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.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Stern, Judith

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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 is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson

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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Reagan, Ronald