Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Billings, Josh

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Camus, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Storrs, R. S.

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Barry LePatner

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude