Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Keats, John

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

Marx, Karl

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Baldwin, James

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Billings, Josh

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Barry LePatner

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Camus, Albert

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Kafka, Franz

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Spolin, Viola

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

Stern, Judith

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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

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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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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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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