Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the extract of suffering.

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Stern, Judith

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Johnson

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

Barry LePatner

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Albert Camus

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Storrs, R. S.