Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Baldwin, James

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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

Albert Camus

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Tracy, Brian

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Johnson

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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.

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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

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

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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