Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

- Roux, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Camus, Albert

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Ford, Gerald R.

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Daumal, Rene

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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley