Motivational Quotes

Experience

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

- Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Dylan, Bob

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Johnson

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Stern, Judith

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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