Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Van Buren, Abigail

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Reagan, Ronald

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

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.

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Marx, Karl

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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 largely non-transferable.

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Heinlein, Robert

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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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 you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Billings, Josh

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James