Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Billings, Josh

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

Pascal, Blaise

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object.

Einstein, Albert

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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 only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Barry LePatner

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

Bax, Arnold

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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 extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Persian

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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