Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Getty, J. Paul

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Johnson

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Billings, Josh

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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 that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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

Marx, Karl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dylan, Bob

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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

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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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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