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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

Johnson

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bax, Arnold

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Eliot, George

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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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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 comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.