Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

Bax, Arnold

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

West, Rebecca

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

Stern, Judith

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Camus, Albert

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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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 largely non-transferable.

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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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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Albert Camus

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

Marx, Karl

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Dylan, Bob

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon