Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bax, Arnold

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Marx, Karl

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Johnson

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Camus, Albert

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

Proverb, Italian

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The only source of knowledge is experience.