Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

- James A. Froude

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Law, Vernon S.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Campbell, Joseph

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Marx, Karl

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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.