Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

Johnson

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Stern, Judith

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

Billings, Josh

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

Marx, Karl

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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.