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

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

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

Stern, Judith

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Hill, Napoleon

Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life.

Bellin, Gita

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.

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

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

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

Godwin, Gail

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Marx, Karl

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

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

Johnson

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

James A. Froude

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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

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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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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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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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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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Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Billings, Josh

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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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The only source of knowledge is experience.

Einstein, Albert

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Helps, Sir Arthur

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

Proverb, Persian

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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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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 rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

Storrs, R. S.

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

Proverb, Italian

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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