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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

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

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

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

Albert Camus

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Woodman, Cousin

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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