Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Godwin, Gail

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

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

Tracy, Brian

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Eliot, George

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.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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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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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself,'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Barry LePatner

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Marx, Karl

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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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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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 is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Hill, Napoleon