Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

- Roux, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

Bellin, Gita

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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.

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

Johnson

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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 comes from bad judgment.

Barry LePatner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Albert Camus

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bax, Arnold