Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Johnson

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

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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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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 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 a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Barry LePatner

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.