Motivational Quotes

Experience

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

- Twain, Mark

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Johnson

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

Albert Camus

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

Law, Vernon S.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Marx, Karl

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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 isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Barry LePatner

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Mccormick, Terry

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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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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Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin