Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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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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Buddha

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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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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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Albert Camus

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Billings, Josh

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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