Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

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

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

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

Law, Vernon S.

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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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. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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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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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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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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 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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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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