Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Mcluhan, Marshall

Best Quotes about Experience

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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 teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Rohn, Jim

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 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.

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

Marx, Karl

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Stern, Judith

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. 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 a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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 comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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