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

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

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

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Butterworth, Eric

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Keats, John

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Woodman, Cousin

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Billings, Josh

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Bax, Arnold

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

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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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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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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Albert Camus

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Johnson

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Marx, Karl

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jagger, Mick