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

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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 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.

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson

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

Campbell, 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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Camus, Albert

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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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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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