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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Hill, Napoleon

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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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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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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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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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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 you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Barry LePatner

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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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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 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