Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Woodman, Cousin

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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.

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

West, Rebecca

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Storrs, R. S.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Jagger, Mick

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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Camus, Albert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Campbell, Joseph

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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