Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Keats, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Billings, Josh

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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

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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Barry LePatner

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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 comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bellin, Gita

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