Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

- Lamartine, Alphonse De

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Albert Camus

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

Camus, Albert

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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

Baldwin, James

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

Proverb, Italian

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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

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

Keats, John

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise