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

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

Billings, Josh

It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience -- well, that comes from poor judgment.

Woodman, Cousin

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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.

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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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 private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Vernon Sanders Law