Motivational Quotes

Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

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

Keats, John

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Tracy, Brian

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Baldwin, James

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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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We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Twain, Mark

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Dylan, Bob

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Johnson

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Albert Camus

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Butler, Samuel

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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.