Motivational Quotes

Experience

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Billings, Josh

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Marx, Karl

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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Stern, Judith

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Barry LePatner

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

Law, Vernon 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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph