Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Campbell, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Johnson

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Barry LePatner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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.