Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

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

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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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 a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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

Billings, Josh

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

Bax, Arnold

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Albert Camus

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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 can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight