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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Godwin, Gail

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

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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Marx, Karl

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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 you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Albert Camus

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Daumal, Rene

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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 is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Camus, Albert

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stern, Judith