Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about 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

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

Keats, John

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Albert Camus

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

Barry LePatner

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Aldous Huxley

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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Brandeis, Louis D.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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 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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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

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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