Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Proverb, Persian

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aldous Huxley

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Marx, Karl

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Barry LePatner