Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Pascal, Blaise

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Stern, Judith

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Billings, Josh

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

Barry LePatner

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Marx, Karl

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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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 can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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 largely non-transferable.

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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 a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De