Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Woodman, Cousin

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Barry LePatner

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

Stern, Judith

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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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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 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 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

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jagger, Mick

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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.