Motivational Quotes

Experience

By far the best proof is experience.

- Sir Francis Bacon

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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.

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Barry LePatner

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, 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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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 is often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Mcluhan, Marshall