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

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

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

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.

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

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

Campbell, Joseph

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

Proverb, Italian

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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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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 more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Johnson

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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 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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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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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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