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 the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Siegel, Bernie S.

Benjamin, Walter

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

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

If we could sell our experience for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Van Buren, Abigail

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

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

Vernon Sanders Law

He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

Proverb, Persian

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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Billings, Josh

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

Dylan, Bob

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

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

Marx, Karl

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

Barry LePatner

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

Benson, Ezra Taft

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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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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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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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jagger, Mick

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

Camus, Albert

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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

Bax, Arnold