Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bowen, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Tracy, Brian

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Eliot, George

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Camus, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marx, Karl

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Doctorow, E. L.