Motivational Quotes

Experience

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Godwin, Gail

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

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

Experience is largely non-transferable.

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.

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Billings, Josh

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Baldwin, James

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Albert Camus

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Billings, Josh

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise