Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Barry LePatner

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Jagger, Mick

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

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

Mccormick, Terry

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Albert Camus

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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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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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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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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Barry LePatner

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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 extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Stern, Judith

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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 what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Marx, Karl

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise