Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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

Proverb, Persian

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bax, Arnold

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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

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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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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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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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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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 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