Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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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

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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo