Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Albert Camus

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

Baldwin, James

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Billings, Josh

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

Stern, Judith

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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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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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Bellin, Gita

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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

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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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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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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, 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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir 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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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