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

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

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

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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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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Marx, Karl

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

Johnson

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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Barry LePatner

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Mccormick, Terry