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

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Johnson

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

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Stern, Judith

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Buddha

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

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

Barry LePatner

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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 a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Albert Camus

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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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.