Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Keats, John

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Eliot, George

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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Stern, Judith

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.