Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience is the extract of suffering.

- Helps, Sir Arthur

Best Quotes about Experience

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.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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.

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

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

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Marx, Karl

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

Camus, Albert

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

Billings, Josh

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

Law, Vernon S.

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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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 know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

West, Rebecca

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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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