Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the extract of suffering.

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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.

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Albert Camus

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.

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

Johnson

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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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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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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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Billings, Josh

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Barry LePatner

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