Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Camus, Albert

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

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

Billings, Josh

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Barry LePatner

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Marx, Karl

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Campbell, Joseph

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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