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

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

Stern, Judith

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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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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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 probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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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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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Barry LePatner

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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