Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Billings, Josh

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

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

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Baldwin, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Barry LePatner

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Benjamin, Walter

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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. 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