Motivational Quotes

Experience

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

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Experience

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Franklin, Benjamin

My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.

Fun, Brigham Young

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

Ford, Gerald R.

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.

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

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

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

Doctorow, E. L.

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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.

Cadman

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

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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 that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

Baldwin, James

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

Grenfell, Wilfred T.

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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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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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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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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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By far the best proof is experience.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

Law, Vernon S.

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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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Jumping to conclusions can be a bad exercise

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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Stern, Judith

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Experience is largely non-transferable.

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I know by my own pot how the others boil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The more experiments you make the better.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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The fool knows after he's suffered.

Hesiod

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Getty, J. Paul

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

Bellin, Gita