Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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

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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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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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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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James, Henry

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Barry LePatner

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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 something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Camus, Albert

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