Motivational Quotes

Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

10.

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

West, Rebecca

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Augustine, St.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bellin, Gita

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Stern, Judith

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph