Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

- Roux, Joseph

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Albert Camus

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

10.

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

Barry LePatner

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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.

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stern, Judith

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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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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

LeMond, Greg

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Marx, Karl

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Van Buren, Abigail