Motivational Quotes

Experience

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

- Cadman

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Stern, Judith

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Reagan, Ronald

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

Johnson

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

41.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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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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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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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Baldwin, James

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Ford, Gerald R.

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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