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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Marx, Karl

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

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.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

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

Johnson

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Camus, Albert

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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 is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Barry LePatner

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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Getty, J. Paul

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James