Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

West, Rebecca

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Albert Camus

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Johnson

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Baldwin, James

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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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

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bax, Arnold

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Marx, Karl

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Camus, Albert

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

Barry LePatner

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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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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.