Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Butterworth, Eric

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.

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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 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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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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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

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

Albert Camus

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Proverb, Persian

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

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

West, Rebecca

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur