Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Reagan, Ronald

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

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

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Johnson

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Billings, Josh

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bellin, Gita

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

Buddha

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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