Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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

Camus, Albert

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.

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

Proverb, Persian

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Johnson

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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