Motivational Quotes

Experience

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.

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Mccormick, Terry

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

Albert Camus

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

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

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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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 something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Getty, J. Paul

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Billings, Josh

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude