Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Doctorow, E. L.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Johnson

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barry LePatner

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Marx, Karl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Godwin, Gail

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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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