Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Stern, Judith

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Albert Camus

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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 something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barry LePatner

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Johnson

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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tracy, Brian