Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Barry LePatner

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Albert Camus

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Johnson

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Mccormick, Terry

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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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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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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 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 only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Billings, Josh

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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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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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

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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