Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Keats, John

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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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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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight