Motivational Quotes

Experience

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

- Godwin, Gail

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Marx, Karl

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

Albert Camus

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Camus, Albert

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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Johnson

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Barry LePatner

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith