Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Experience

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

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

Proverb, Persian

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

Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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

Doctorow, E. L.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Godwin, Gail

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

Jagger, Mick

A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

Proverb, Italian

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

Billings, Josh

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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everyone has 20 20 hindsight

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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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 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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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 is largely non-transferable.

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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 what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time around.

Mccormick, Terry

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

Camus, Albert

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

Barry LePatner

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

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

Marx, Karl

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Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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

Woodman, Cousin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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 is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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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 is what you get when you were expecting something else.

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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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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo