Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the key to greatness.

- Williams, Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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.

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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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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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Bax, Arnold

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Tracy, Brian

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stern, Judith

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

Albert Camus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Barry LePatner

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Butterworth, Eric

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You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

Camus, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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