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

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Storrs, R. S.

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Johnson

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

Baldwin, James

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

Campbell, Joseph

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Albert Camus

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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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 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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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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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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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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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