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

Law, Vernon S.

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

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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

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

Aldous Huxley

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

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

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Stern, Judith

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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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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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Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

Barry LePatner

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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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 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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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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

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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

Dylan, Bob