Motivational Quotes

Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Johnson

Experience is largely non-transferable.

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Stern, Judith

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

Campbell, Joseph

16.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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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

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Camus, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Persian

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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