Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Persian

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A strong and secure man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds alike) just as he digests his meat, even when he has some bits to swallow.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Johnson

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Stern, Judith

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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