Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Getty, J. Paul

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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.

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Marx, Karl

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Hemingway, Ernest

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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