Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

West, Rebecca

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

Eliot, George

I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Albert Camus

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Aldous Huxley

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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Marx, Karl

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Billings, Josh

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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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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Barry LePatner

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman