Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Albert Camus

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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 rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Camus, Albert