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

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

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Baldwin, James

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Stern, Judith

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Dylan, Bob

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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

Trump, Donald

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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