Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bax, Arnold

Best Quotes about Experience

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

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

Billings, Josh

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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Stern, Judith

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Barry LePatner

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

Baldwin, James

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

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dylan, Bob

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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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 not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hill, Napoleon