Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Albert Camus

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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stern, Judith

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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