Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Bellin, Gita

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Camus, Albert

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

Stern, Judith

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 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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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene