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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Stern, Judith

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.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding.

Brandeis, Louis D.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Persian

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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Pascal, Blaise

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Barry LePatner

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Albert Camus

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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.