Motivational Quotes

Experience

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Woodman, Cousin

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Barry LePatner

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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.

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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Italian

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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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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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Persian

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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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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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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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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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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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 is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.