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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Doctorow, E. L.

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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 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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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