Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Experience

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

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

Johnson

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Stern, Judith

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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 fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Keats, John

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

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Billings, Josh

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

Baldwin, James

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, 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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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