Motivational Quotes

Experience

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

- Cadman

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Marx, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Stern, Judith

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

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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 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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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