Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Bellin, Gita

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

A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 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 the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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

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We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking to crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

Spolin, Viola

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Marx, Karl

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It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Camus, Albert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stern, Judith

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Jagger, Mick