Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Barry LePatner

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Tracy, Brian

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James