Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bax, Arnold

Best Quotes about Experience

The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

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

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Baldwin, James

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Camus, Albert

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

Marx, Karl

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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Mccormick, Terry

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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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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 often what you get when you were expecting something else.

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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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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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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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Hepburn, Audrey

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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.

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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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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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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