Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Marx, Karl

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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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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Stern, Judith

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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Johnson

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bax, Arnold