Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Johnson

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

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.

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

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

Keats, John

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Billings, Josh

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Billings, Josh

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

Camus, Albert

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

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Albert Camus

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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