Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Baldwin, James

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Dylan, Bob

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

Marx, Karl

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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 extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Woodman, Cousin

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Stern, Judith

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

Bellin, Gita

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Camus, Albert

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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.