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

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

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

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Johnson

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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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Camus, Albert

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Stern, Judith

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Barry LePatner

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

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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