Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Pascal, Blaise

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Butterworth, Eric

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Johnson

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marx, Karl

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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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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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick