Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Benson, Ezra Taft

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

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

Woodman, Cousin

Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

Experience is the key to greatness.

Williams, Arthur

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

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

Campbell, Joseph

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bax, Arnold

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

Proverb, Persian

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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 that life gives you after you lose your hair.

Stern, Judith

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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 comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Roux, Joseph

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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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Law, Vernon 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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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Barry LePatner

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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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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Marx, Karl

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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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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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