Motivational Quotes

Experience

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

- Johnson

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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.

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Camus, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Marx, Karl

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Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Baldwin, James

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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Bax, Arnold

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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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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 is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Doctorow, E. L.