Motivational Quotes

Experience

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

- Godwin, Gail

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Billings, Josh

Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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.

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

Bax, Arnold

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Albert Camus

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

Stern, Judith

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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.

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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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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In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

33.

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

Jagger, Mick

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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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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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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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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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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 is largely non-transferable.