Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Jagger, Mick

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Eliot, George

Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Storrs, R. S.

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Bellin, Gita

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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 is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Stern, Judith

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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.