Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Aldous Huxley

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Getty, J. Paul

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Persian

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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

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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 largely non-transferable.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Stern, Judith