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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Aldous Huxley

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Chesterfield, Lord

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

Keats, John

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Law, Vernon 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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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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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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 is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Marx, Karl

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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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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Persian

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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