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

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Johnson

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Camus, Albert

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Kafka, Franz

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon