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

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

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

Baldwin, James

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

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

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barry LePatner

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Italian

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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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