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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

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

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

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

Keats, John

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

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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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

Stern, Judith

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Billings, Josh

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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 largely non-transferable.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Albert Camus

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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