Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Albert Camus

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Marx, Karl

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

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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 in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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