Motivational Quotes

Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Albert Camus

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

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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

Barry LePatner

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Billings, Josh

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.