Motivational Quotes

Experience

The fool knows after he's suffered.

- Hesiod

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Stern, Judith

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Jagger, Mick

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Billings, Josh

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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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Vernon Sanders Law