Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Experience

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Billings, Josh

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Johnson

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

Storrs, R. S.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

Marx, Karl

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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 fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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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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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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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Jagger, Mick

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur