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 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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Billings, Josh

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.

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Marx, Karl

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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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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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Jagger, Mick

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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 is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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